Over the past year, China has significantly increased its supplies of navigation equipment and various components for military equipment to Russia. This has enabled Russia to significantly increase its arms production. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies - Washington Analytical Center, UNN writes.
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It is noted that trade in some of the most important dual-use goods for the Russian army has increased sharply since Xi Jinping's meeting with Putin last March.
The report says that the number of shipments of key dual-use goods, including helicopter parts, navigation equipment, and machines used to make precision parts for weapons and aircraft, has jumped from several thousand a month to nearly 30,000 a month.
"In the end, this allowed the Kremlin to accelerate the production of weapons, including armored vehicles, artillery, missiles and drones, and to provide effective defense against Ukraine's counteroffensive in 2023," said Max Bergmann, Senior Research Fellow at the Center.
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Oleksandr Ruvin, Director of Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, previously said that foreign partners are constantly asking which countries the components come from in order to take appropriate measures. At the same time, Russia is actively using third countries to obtain sanctioned goods. In particular, China.
"They are interested in which company, whose production, when the component was manufactured, because in many cases the Russians erase numbers and manufacturers. And we have to use special methods that we have to conduct examinations.
The sanctions are in effect. They apply only to the purchase of these components by the Russian Federation or its satellites. But there are third and fourth countries from which it is also possible to supply, and this is probably what is being done," Ruvin said.