NEW: China is considering sending Russia ammunition and artillery, U.S. officials say, though Beijing has accused Washington of 'disinformation' over the claims. Here's what lethal military aid from China could mean for the war in Ukraine:
in the eastern Donbas region, China’s existing stockpile of old artillery and ammunition — some of which is Russian made and could be readily used — might give Russia’s army the breathing room to keep fighting a war that has already lasted much longer than the Kremlin had planned.
“From the end of the Cold War until approximately the mid-to-late-2000s, China was the most significant foreign customer of Russia’s defense industry,” said Lukas Fiala, Project Coordinator of China Foresight, a research program at the London School of Economics. Despite waning reliance on Russian imports and a turn towards home-grown weapons systems, he said, China still has a “sizeable contingent of Russian equipment.
So far, U.S.-supplied long-range weapons like HIMARS artillery have proven to be highly effective on the battlefield, allowing Ukraine to retake large swaths of territory Russia annexed by hitting targets well beyond its previous capability to help lay the groundwork for sweeping counteroffensives.“The Russian army has shown one of the few things it can do is saturate areas with artillery,” said Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St.
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