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Iran, Russia Condemn Israeli Strike on Lebanon

A view shows damage after what security sources said was a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Al-Kerdi Purchase Licensing Rights
A view shows damage after what security sources said was a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Al-Kerdi Purchase Licensing Rights
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Iran, Russia Condemn Israeli Strike on Lebanon

A view shows damage after what security sources said was a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Al-Kerdi Purchase Licensing Rights
A view shows damage after what security sources said was a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Al-Kerdi Purchase Licensing Rights

Iran condemned Tuesday what it called a "vicious" Israeli strike in Lebanon which Israel said targeted a Hezbollah commander behind last week's rocket attack on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

"The vicious and criminal action of the Zionist criminal gang in the suburbs of Beirut certainly cannot stop ... Lebanon's proud resistance from continuing the honourable path of supporting the oppressed Palestinians and standing against the aggression of the Israeli apartheid regime," said foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani in a statement, AFP reported.

For its part, Russia accused Israel on Tuesday of violating international law after it struck the Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

"This is a gross violation of international law," Russia's foreign ministry told state news agencies.

Israel said the strike targeted a commander responsible for a Saturday rocket attack on the annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 children.

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Kyiv Hails Dialogue with Beijing, Hints at Potential Zelenskiy-Xi Meeting

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Dmytro Kuleba, left, poses for photos with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi before a meeting in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Lu Hanxin/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Dmytro Kuleba, left, poses for photos with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi before a meeting in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Lu Hanxin/Xinhua via AP)
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Kyiv Hails Dialogue with Beijing, Hints at Potential Zelenskiy-Xi Meeting

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Dmytro Kuleba, left, poses for photos with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi before a meeting in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Lu Hanxin/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Dmytro Kuleba, left, poses for photos with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi before a meeting in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Lu Hanxin/Xinhua via AP)

Ukraine has invited China's foreign minister to visit amid growing dialogue that could eventually lead to a meeting between the two countries' leaders, Kyiv's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Beijing casts itself as neutral on the Kremlin's 29-month-old invasion of Ukraine but maintains close ties with Moscow and sat out a Kyiv-organized peace summit in June.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba made his first wartime visit to China last week to meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. That was another sign that dialogue between Kyiv and Beijing is "developing very dynamically," said Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi.

Work toward a possible future meeting between Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Xi Jinping was constant, he added. Since the start of the war, the two have only spoken once by telephone, in April 2023.

"Did ... Minister Kuleba's visit to China bring closer a potential meeting of the leaders of Ukraine and China? It indisputably did," Tykhyi said at a briefing in Kyiv. It is, however, too early to tell when a meeting could take place, he added.

Kyiv has invited Wang to visit Ukraine and Beijing has indicated it was interested in the proposal, Tykhyi said.

"We are ready to welcome Minister Wang Yi in Ukraine to see first-hand the consequences of the Russian aggression against our country and hold deeper bilateral talks with him on a number of bilateral, regional and international issues," he said.

In China, Kuleba told Wang after a day of "very deep and concentrated" talks that Kyiv was prepared for talks on the war with Russia only if Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity were fully respected.

China, the world's second-largest economy, has provided diplomatic backing to Russia and helped keep its wartime economy afloat.