Britain Claims to Have Evidence of China Supplying Weapons to Russia

UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps on Wednesday accused China of providing or preparing to provide lethal weapons to Russia for use in the war against Ukraine.

This was reported by Reuters.

Shapps stated at a conference in London that American and British military intelligence have evidence that lethal weaponry assistance «is already coming or will come from China to Russia,» and then to the battlefield in Ukraine.

The minister said he believes «this is a significant development».

«We should be concerned about this because in the early days of this war, China wanted to present itself as a country that could exert a restraining influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin», he added.

Shapps also noted that "we have evidence that Russia and China are collaborating on developing combat equipment for use in Ukraine."

«As we have seen from Putin’s state visit to Beijing and the 64% increase in trade between Russia and China since the full-scale invasion… they are covering for each other», the British minister stated.

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