China says U.S. intelligence on giving weapons to Russia is speculation
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China’s Foreign Ministry said any potential intelligence on arms transfer by China to Russia that the United States plans to release is just speculation, its spokesman said on Thursday.
“As for the so-called intel, this is just speculation and smearing against China,” Wang Wenbin said at a regular briefing.
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that the U.S. government is considering releasing intelligence on China considering supplying weapons to Russia.
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Ukraine believes Russians preparing possible war anniversary ‘provocations’
Ukraine’s armed forces in the north of the country said Thursday that they believe Russia’s forces are preparing for possible provocations on the first anniversary of their invasion.
Ukraine’s North Operational Command said on Telegram today that Russian forces “are preparing possible provocations for the anniversary of the full-scale offensive, most likely, the goal is to accuse the Ukrainian defenders of violating territorial integrity,” according to a Google translation of the post.
The North Operational Command said its suspicions were “evidenced by intelligence data, which recorded the movement of columns of military equipment in the area of the border with the Chernihiv region [in northern Ukraine] without identification marks and manpower dressed in a pixel [camouflage], similar to the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
Ukrainian members of the Territorial Defense Forces take part in target practice on Feb. 22, 2023, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine.
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The Command unit issued a later statement reiterating that its warning was about possible Russian provocations and not “about any actions that have taken place.”
CNBC was unable to verify the information in the report but both sides have accused each other of preparing possible…
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