Zhang Renbo and Wang Guanjun, the two Chinese citizens captured by Ukrainian forces on the Donetsk front, have said that the Russian units in which they served engaged them in hard labour and ...

The two captured Chinese nationals were identified as Wang Guangjun, born in 1991, and Zhang Renbo, born in 1998. They were fighting in different Russian military brigades and were captured in ...

“And I came from that kind of motivation.” Chinese national Zhang Renbo claimed he only wanted to earn some money during his Russian vacation before being tricked to fight in the frontline ...

“I hope China can exchange me with Russia and Ukraine and bring me back to China,” said one of the men, 26-year-old Zhang Renbo. The other, 33-year-old Wang Guangjun, said: “To my ...

The first man, Zhang Renbo, said he is an inexperienced soldier on his first deployment. Zelensky has claimed that at least 155 Chinese nationals are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.

He and the other Chinese prisoner, identified as 27-year-old Zhang Renbo, said they weren't associated with any Chinese security or armed forces. Wang said he was given a few days of training in ...

Wang Guangjun and Zhang Renbo, two Chinese citizens taken prisoner by Ukraine, claim they had not expected to end up in a war zone in Ukraine. Source: Chinese prisoners of war at a press conference in ...

The next day he posted a second video of both men, who gave their names as Zhang Renbo and Wang Guangjun, and shots of their Chinese passports. Mr Zelensky claimed Ukraine knows of more than 150 ...

BEIJING — China on Tuesday rejected what it called “manipulation and hype” around two of its nationals captured in Ukraine, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of ...

Another Chinese man who was also captured, Zhang Renbo, assured that neither he nor his compatriot had received orders from the Chinese government to sign a contract with the russian army. The man ...

War, as before, only existed in my television shows or movies. Zhang Renbo, the other POW who said he traveled to Russia as a tourist with plans to join the Russian military, said his prime regret is ...