China sends guns, drone parts and military equipment to Russia. This was revealed by Politico, according to which China North Industries Group Corporation Limited, one of the country’s largest state-owned defense contractors, will ship about a thousand CQ-A rifles modeled on the M16 but marked as “for civilian combatants” between June and December 2022 has. , to a Russian company called Tekhkrim, which also does business with the Russian state and military. Data provided by customs data aggregator ImportGenius and reported by the US newspaper shows how these weapons have been reported in use by paramilitary police in China and armed forces from the Philippines to South Sudan and Paraguay. But not only that: according to Politico, the Russian companies also received 12 shipments of drone parts from Chinese companies and over 12 tons of Chinese body armor via Turkey at the end of 2022. For example, to ship drone parts via the UAE, a small Russian distributor in November and December 2022 would be Chinese tech company Da-Jiang Innovations Science & Technology Co. (Dji).
In addition to guns, bulletproof vests and drone parts, as of 2022 the Russian state defense company Rosoboronexport has also imported microchips, thermal imaging devices and spare parts such as a gas turbine engine from various countries from China to Serbia and Myanmar. These sales, Politico explains, reveal that China is supplying Russian companies with previously undeclared equipment that could also be used on the battlefield in Ukraine. However, at the moment it is not clear whether Russia uses the rifle model included in the battlefield expedition data. Russian company Tekhkrim did not respond to an emailed request for comment from the US newspaper. However, drones made by Chinese tech company DJI have been spotted on the battlefield in Ukraine. Not even Dij – writes the media – responded to a request for comment.
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