KYIV: Ukraine has confirmed info that China is supplying a variety of necessary merchandise to Russian army vegetation, the chief of Ukrainian overseas intelligence was quoted on Monday (Could 26) as saying.
“There’s info that China provides tooling machines, particular chemical merchandise, gunpowder, and elements particularly to defence manufacturing industries,” Oleh Ivashchenko instructed Ukrinform state information company.
“We’ve confirmed information on 20 Russian factories,” he mentioned.
Reuters has requested a remark from the Chinese language overseas ministry.
China, the world’s second-largest economic system, has solid even nearer commerce and different financial relations with Russia since Moscow despatched tens of 1000’s of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Western sanctions on the Russian economic system.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned final month that China was supplying weapons and gunpowder to Russia, the primary time he had overtly accused Beijing of direct military assistance for Moscow.
China dismissed the accusation as “groundless” however Kyiv imposed sanctions on three Chinese language entities.
Ivashchenko mentioned Ukrainian intelligence additionally had info on at the least 5 circumstances of Russian-Chinese language cooperation within the aviation sector in 2024-2025, together with the provision of kit, spare elements and documentation.
He added that there have been six circumstances of “massive shipments” of speciality chemical compounds, with out offering particulars.
Reuters couldn’t independently verify the assertions.
