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China and India have turned out to be again The war effort of Russia By ignoring or even avoiding Western sanctions, including the use of front companies, Reuters found this week.
Both countries have long been under international supervision because of their refusal to condemn the illegal war and their high purchase percentages of Russian oil, which is the number one export of Moscow and, in expansion, AIDS Russian war greenhouse.
But both countries were also directly contributed to the fighting force of Russia on the battlefield, including through an explosive composite sales agreement of $ 1.4 million between a private Indian company to two Russian companies, including a sale of $ 1 million in explosive production company Promsintez, which has previously known ties with the Russian army.
XI Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the BRICS -TOP 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/Pool/AFP via Getty images)/Getty images)
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Another $ 400K of explosives was purchased by a Russian underground mining company called High Technology Initiation Systems, Discovered Reuters, although it is unclear whether this company is suspected of trusting technologies for double use to help Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war effort.
Although the US has issued hundreds of sanctions against entities around the world for their support or involvement in the war effort of Russia, most American sanctions seem to have aimed at Chinese people and companies, although this does not seem to have deterred the constant support of Beijing for Moscow.
Chinese engines that were used for Russia’s drone production were found to have been sent to the Russian armor Iemz Kupol to increase the production of the Garpiya-A1-Talsdrone.
An infographic entitled “Russian export of crude oil” founded in Istanbul, Turkiye, on 26 February 2025. (Muhammed Ali Yigit / Anadolu via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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But according to Reuters, the shipments of Beijing Xichao International Technology and Trade were made under the description of “industrial cooling units” to prevent western sanctions that were implemented in October 2024, in an attempt to break drone-based supply chains, which Russia has been familiar with in his war in Ukraine.
Kupol has reportedly signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense to increase the production of the long-distance drones die to increase civil and military goals in Ukraine to ensure the production of approximately 6,000 drones this year, produced in 2024.
India and China have maintained that their companies are not violating their national laws despite Western sanctions, which both countries have also convicted, including the most recent Sanctions of the EU that were published this week and that focuses on Indian refineries that use Russian oil.
US President Donald Trump and Vice -President JD Vance meet NATO -Secretary General Mark Rutte, on the day that President Trump announces a deal to get weapons for NATO, in the Oval Office in the White House, DC, on July 14, 2025. (Reuters / Nathan Howard / Reuters -photos)
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President Donald Trump has already threatened to take 100% sanctions against countries that buy Russian oil if Putin does not enter into a peace agreement at the beginning of September – a measure that is expected to influence China and India the most, given their dependence on Russian oil.
