Two US officials associated with American intelligence, as well as a former Western intelligence officer, said that the Chinese army officers were in the theater of military operations behind the front line with the approval of Beijing to extract “tactical lessons from the war.”
On April 11, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in an appeal to the contact group for the defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format said that at least several hundred citizens of China are fighting in Ukraine on the Kremlin side.
American officials who spoke on conditions of anonymity said that Chinese fighters, apparently, have minimal training and do not have a noticeable influence on the actions of the occupation of the Russian Federation.
A former Western intelligence officer told Reuters that about 200 Chinese mercenaries are fighting on the side of Russians, with whom the Chinese government has no connections. But they make trips near Russian fronts “to learn lessons and tactics from this war.”
Officers “are absolutely definitely there as agreed,” said one of the sources.
Context
April 8 became known that fighters of the 81st separate airmobile Slobozhanskaya Brigade nearby settlements Tarasovka and Belogorovka They captured two citizens of China. They had documents, passports and credit cards.
Foreign Ministry of Ukraine He called a temporary attorney in China's affairs for explanation.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine retold the story of one of the captives of the Chinese that he went to the Russian army to obtain Russian citizenship, After paying an intermediary 300 thousand rubles. (approximately 143 thousand UAH). The prisoner claims that his family knew about his intentions to leave for the Russian Federation, but officially he went to the aggressor country as a tourist.
Citizens of China, who fought against Ukraine as part of the Russian army and whom the Ukrainian military captured, have no injuries. About this on April 9 informed Security Service of Ukraine, showing photos of the Chinese and their documents.
