With the West’s increasing demands on Beijing to refrain from supplying Moscow with weapons, and China’s assurances that it “has not and will not add more fuel to the fire,” a senior advisor in the Ukrainian President’s office said that the Ukrainian forces are finding more Chinese-made components in the Russian weapons used in the war. With the decline of Western components restricted by sanctions. “We continue to find different electronics in the weapons we got from the battlefield,” said Vladislav Vlasyuk.
Vlasyuk added: “The general trend now is a decline in Western-made components, but with an increase in components from a country, which is not difficult to guess. It is China, of course.
In addition, German Foreign Minister Analina Berbock called, during a press conference in Beijing, and her Chinese counterpart, Chen Gang, was standing by her side, to demand the “Russian aggressor to stop the war” in Ukraine, adding: “I have to say frankly: Why did the Chinese position not even include Now demand the aggressor Russia to stop the war? It is also important not to allow the delivery of weapons to Russia. “It is also important to prevent dual-use goods from being used in war,” she added. “We have not and will not provide any weapons to the parties to the conflict,” Qin Gang replied, adding that the export of so-called dual-use goods, which can be used for both civilian and military purposes, is also being controlled.
In addition, Beijing announced that its Defense Minister, Li Shangfu, will begin tomorrow, for a period of three days, a visit to Russia.
On the ground, officials in Kiev stated that the Russian army continued to launch relentless attacks on the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, and also bombed the city of Kherson in the south of the country.
Amid expectations that Kiev will launch a counterattack in the coming weeks or months, with the aim of regaining territory controlled by Russia in the south and east, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said yesterday that Ukraine will “test and use” any weapons that are not prohibited to liberate its lands, including That’s Crimea.
China assures Europe that it has not and will not provide weapons to Russia…and its defense minister is visiting Moscow
