European Union officials have confirmed that China provided military training to hundreds of Russian soldiers who were subsequently deployed to participate in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
During a briefing in Brussels on June 12, a high-ranking EU representative stated that intelligence services have gathered clear evidence of this training. Training took place across multiple locations within Chinese territory, according to Deutsche Welle.
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On June 15, EU foreign ministers are scheduled to meet in Luxembourg to address this development. The agenda includes a broader discussion on relations with China, focusing on security and foreign policy. Ministers will also examine the European defense industry’s reliance on Chinese supply chains and potential strategies to mitigate those dependencies.
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Previous reports from various international sources have suggested that these training programs, which allegedly occurred in late 2025, utilized six military bases in China.
These programs were reportedly focused on the operation of drone systems, electronic warfare tactics, and advanced battlefield simulations. Some of the soldiers involved were reportedly linked to elite Russian drone units that have been active in the front-line regions of Ukraine.
At the same time, Russia launched a three-day exercise involving its nuclear forces on May 19, mobilizing around 64,000 troops and 7,800 units of military equipment just hours before Russian leader Vladimir Putin departed for a two-day trip to China.
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This account looks like it’s a Russian bot, looking from its history of comments. I banned and recommended it to others.
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Username: lie
User: troll
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I think “fascism” describes modern Russia quite well:
Putin is essentially a dictator who keeps giving himself more time in office. Russians can’t elect another leader because Russian “elections” are rigged. And in Russia you will be punished if you vocally disagree with the government: protestors who have voiced opposition to the invasion of Ukraine have been arrested, and in some cases imprisoned for long periods of time. And then there’s the fact that Alexei Navalny, an opposition politician who disagreed with the Russian government, was poisoned by the Russian government twice: once in 2020, and again in 2024.
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As someone with family and heritage from Myanmar: China is 100% absolutely a capitalistic fascist state.
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Look up rubber cultivation in Myanmar and jade mines and get back to me. Hell, look up the ongoing civil war that’s happening there and ask yourself who’s behind the military government killing the people fighting for liberation. Britain, America, Russia, China… It’s all the same old song, just maybe with a faster tempo this time.
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well good news about all this if China did indeed train Russia for this “3 day operation” guess we don’t have to worry about China much either.
China has learned a lot and might not suffer from the problems of Russia.
I’d like to remind people that you can block users on an instance level. F.ex. I’ve blocked lemmy.ml and consequently see a lot less poorly coherent disingenuous russia/china simping commentary.
@Sepia And the UK trained Ukrainian troops, so what? The real news is that neither side are working toward peace and an end to war. Neither side is different in any way.
This is factually inaccurate. Ukraine has made several overtures for peace that russia has declined for imperialist reasons. Also, Ukraine has democratically declared their disinterest in becoming a russian vassal as evidenced by their ouster of the pro-russian government, which precipitated this whole thing. Freedom is more important than peace, particularly when all that needs to be done to obtain peace is for russia to withdraw to their pre 2014 borders and cut the shit. Cries for peace at all cost are cries for capitulation, and consequently, pro-invader garbage.
This is an extraordinarily disgusting comment as you probably know yourself as Russia is the aggressor in this war.
@Sepia Western propaganda says that Russia is the aggressor and eastern propaganda says the west is. When the country descended into civil war due to a violent coup each side blames the other. That is normal and the opposite of working toward peace. Wave your flag all you like but to me you look disgusting as you stand on the bodies of others. You should learn the actual history of what happened before you attack.
Which side started the war?
@Sepia Who created the armies within Ukraine that were focused on war? It was not the Ukrainian people as they wanted peace. It would have taken a lot of money to create Azov, Sich and Right Sector. Then again if you wish to continue being simplistic you could say Azov, Sich and Right Sector. Or you could forget about the start and move on 8 years and blame Russia.
Or you could forget about the start
You mean the start of russian occupation of the Ukrainian territory? I’d rather not forget about that
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@Seppo Ohh, come on. If you are going to descend into childish abuse I am sure you can do better than that. How about “Kremlin bot”? I see it as you that is uneducated given you lack the ability to look at the situation objectively and would rather thousands of people die and a whole country is destroyed. If people only follow the propaganda they only go to war. I am opposed to war.
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violent coup
Ukraine’s parliament voted to remove President Yanukovych in 2014 (see here). That’s not a violent coup.
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First of all, China publicly denies being involved in the Russian war on Ukraine and tries to present itself as neutral country. The UK does not make a secret out of supporting Ukraine. The second point is, Russia invaded Ukraine for imperial reasons to gain territory. If you can’t see how the sides are different, you are crazy, or stupid, or both.
@lokalhorst When did the UK admit to having troops in Ukraine and stop making out it only offered defence? Even if you were correct how would that change what I said? There are lots of differences between the two sides but when someone says that Russia invaded they clearly did not follow what happened. We took a side in the civil war as did Russia. We sent in troops secretly and after 8 years of trying to stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide Russia took a side. Russia took the side of the ethnic Russian people who were being cleansed which, given they are ethnic Russian I can see there reason. We took the side of the people waving the Bandera flag. The Nazis. At least Russia spent 8 years trying to agree a peaceful way through before Boris Johnson stepped in and got Zelenskyy to agree to war.
Less than one day old account. Ignore.
They are very different in many ways, but this specific thing is the same and not really newsworthy.
