Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone on Wednesday, Beijing and Kyiv said it was the first call between the two leaders since the start of Russia’s invasion.”I had a long and meaningful phone call with President Xi Jinping,” Zelenskyy said on Twitter.”I believe that this call, as well as the appointment of Ukraine’s ambassador to China, will give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations,” he wrote.Zelenskyy’s spokesman Serhiy Nikiforov said on Facebook that the two had “an almost one hour-long telephone conversation.”Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that during the call Xi told Zelensky “talks and negotiation” were the “only way out” of the war.”On the issue of the Ukraine crisis, China has always stood on the side of peace and its core position is to promote peace talks,” CCTV reported Xi as saying.According to a readout of the call, reported by CCTV, Xi said China “will neither watch the fire from the other side, nor add fuel to the fire, let alone take advantage of the crisis to profit.”