US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held telephone talks on Saturday to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

The US State Department said in a statement that Blinken "noted the world is watching to see which nations stand up for the basic principles of freedom, self-determination and sovereignty."

It said, "He underscored that the world is acting in unison to repudiate and respond to the Russian aggression, ensuring that Moscow will pay a high price."

China's Foreign Ministry quoted Wang as saying that the Ukrainian crisis can only be resolved through dialogue in the end.

The ministry said Wang encouraged the US, NATO, the European Union and Russia to engage in dialogue on an equal footing and pay attention to the negative impact of NATO's continuous eastward expansion on Russia's security environment.