Chinese companies supply rifles to Russia, UAV details and bulletproof vests - Politico

It is reported that supplies were made from June to December 2022. In particular, China North Industries Group Corporation Limited, one of the largest state defense contractors of the country, sent rifles in June 2022 to the Russian company "Tekkrim", which also conducts business with Russian state and military structures.

The CQ-A rifles created by the M16 but are marked in the data as "civilian hunting rifles", according to reports, are used by militarized police in China and various armed forces from Philippines to South Sudan and Paraguay. According to the data, at the end of 2022, Russian enterprises also received 12 parties for drones produced by Chinese companies and more than 12 tons of Chinese bulletproof vests that were sent through Turkey. Da-Jiang Innovations Science & Technology Co.

, also known as DJI, in November and December 2022, sent details for drones, including batteries and cameras, through the United Arab Emirates. DJI is a Chinese company that has been under the sanctions of the US Treasury since 2021 for the provision of Drones to monitor the Uygur minority in the Western region of Sinjiang. Last December, Russia managed to import more than 800 tons of bulletproof vests worth about $ 10 million.

These bulletproof vests were produced by the Turkish company Ariteks, and most of them were imported directly from Turkey, although some parties arrived in Russia through the UAE. Russia also import some bulletproof vests from the Chinese company Xinxing Guangzhou Import & Export Co.

Trade data also shows that the Russian State Defense Company "Roboronexport" has imported microchips, heat supply devices and spare parts, such as a gas turbine engine, from different countries, from different countries-from China to Serbia and Myanmar.

As Politico writes, although customs data does not indicate that Beijing sells a large number of weapons specifically to assist in hostilities, they show that China supplies to Russian companies previously not registered "double -use equipment" - commercial goods that can also be used on the battlefield in Ukraine.

We will remind, on March 16 it was reported that the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba had a conversation about the termination of aggression and restoration of just peace in Ukraine with a member of the State Council and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. After the conversation, the Chinese side emphasized the need for Ukraine and Russia at the negotiation table.