Beijing, May 19 -- China on Tuesday dismissed a report asserting that President Xi Jinping suggested to his American counterpart Donald Trump that Putin might "regret" his invasion of Ukraine.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun during a press conference told a reporter, "The information you mentioned does not match the facts and is completely fabricated out of thin air."

The official denial comes in response to a major diplomatic revelation by the Financial Times, which reported that the Chinese President made these remarks to Trump during the US President's visit to Beijing last week.

According to the report, which cited people familiar with the US assessment of last week's summit in Beijing, the Chinese leader shared these...