Russia says in broad agreement with China on Ukraine

Unidentified armed men prepare their camp in front of Ukraine’s infantry base in Privolnoye, Ukraine, Sunday, March 2, 2014. AP

MOSCOW — China and Russia are in broad agreement on the situation in Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said Monday after telephone talks between the countries’ top diplomats.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in a phone call noted “broadly coinciding points of view of Russia and China over the situation that has developed in the country and around it,” the ministry said in a statement.

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