Providing a Shahed-like attack drone would mark a deepening of Beijing’s support for Russia.
Chinese and Russian companies are developing an attack drone similar to an Iranian model deployed in Ukraine, European officials familiar with the matter said, a sign that Beijing may be edging closer to providing the sort of lethal aid that Western officials have warned against.
At the same time, US officials have said China is holding off from directly providing weapons and artillery, something that would signal an unprecedented escalation and almost certainly trigger more forceful action – such as sanctions – against the world’s second-biggest economy. “On the Ukraine crisis, it is quite clear to the international community who is calling for dialogue and striving for peace, and who is fuelling the fight and inciting confrontation,” he said. “We urge the relevant countries to immediately stop fuelling the fight and inciting confrontation.”Russia has used thousands of Shahed drones against Ukraine since the beginning of the war, even building a factory towhich is relatively cheap to build but costly to defend against.
Bloomberg News reported in April that China was providing Russia with satellite imagery for military purposes, microelectronics and machine tools for tanks, as well as a swath of technologies used in weapons or needed to produce them.
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