When Twitter put up a warning message atop a Russian government post denying civilian killings in Bucha, Ukraine, last week, China¡¯s state media rushed to its defense.

¡°On Twitter @mfa_russia¡¯s statement on #Bucha got censored,¡± wrote Frontline, a Twitter account associated with China¡¯s official English-language broadcaster, CGTN.

In a Chinese Communist Party newspaper, an article declared that Russians had offered definitive evidence to prove that the lurid photos of bodies in the streets of Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine¡¯s capital, Kyiv, were a hoax.