Media refers to the Ares Leaks received from the ARES LEAK cyberggroups, an inexpensive eight -page internal report of the FSB. The authors of the material suggest that the document was written in the FSB at the end of 2023 or at the beginning of 2024 and may be a draft. Six reconnaissance agencies of the West, which The New York Times showed a document, expressed the opinion that it is genuine.
Journalists note that the publicly illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin talks about the “strong friendship” of Russia with China, but the Chinese are called “enemies” in the FSB.
The Russian intelligence service writes that China is increasingly trying to recruit Russians for espionage in order to gain access to sensitive military technologies, including luring dissatisfied Russian scientists.
The FSB also believes that the PRC spy on the invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine to find out about weapons from the West and methods of warfare, including using drones.
The FSB also fears that China representatives “prepare the ground for claims to the territory of Russia,” writes the American publication.
Journalists argue that three days before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine in February 2022, the FSB approved the Entente-4 program, the meaning of which is “not letting Chinese spies to undermine the interests of Russia.”
Media assumes that Russia, preparing Entente-4, was worried that Beijing “could try to benefit” from the distraction of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, and since then the FSB supposedly observes this particular. In particular, the Chinese allegedly intensified the recruitment of Russian officials, experts, journalists and businessmen close to power in the Russian Federation.
The New York Times concludes that the FSB document confirms the theory that “with the right approach” Russia can be “tore off” from China. But everything can be and vice versa, journalists believe.
From the FSB document, it supposedly follows that Russia is trying to supply Beijing spies with positive information about Russian military operations.
In addition, the publication writes, the FSB notes the interest of China in the Far East of Russia (Chinese nationalists do not agree with the contracts of the 19th century, according to which the Russian Federation received land inclusive with modern Vladivostok), the Arctic (supposedly Chinese spies are active in this region) and Uzbekistan (details in the FSB report are not given, writes the media).
After reading the document from the FSB, The New York Times notes that the Russian Federation will not “put under the jeopard of” support from Moscow by Beijing, as this would “be worse.” The document warns the FSB officers that, before taking any “delicate actions” in relation to the PRC, they must receive approval from the highest echelons of the Russian government.
Context
From the beginning of the full -scale attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine in February 2022, China is publicly trying to adhere to a neutral position and calls for negotiations, but at the UN it often votes in the same way as Russia, and, according to media reports, can supply its military equipment.
According to the United States, in the spring of 2024, China has strengthened the support of the Russian Federation, provides it with intelligence, optics for military equipment, rocket fuel, tank production and other goods. The then Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the PRC is the main supplier of military machines to Russia.
On November 15, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing three sources, reported that China first provided the Russian Federation for use in the war against Ukraine.
That Beijing helps Moscow produce military drones And it supplies Western details, in its annual report, Estonian intelligence also wrote.
April 17, 2025 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reported possible The supply of China to the Russian Federation of gunpowder and artillery.
May 29 Bloomberg wrote that China He limited the export of drones, in particular Mavic, and components to drones for Ukraine and the West, but also supplies them to Russia.
