{"id":142562,"date":"2025-05-29T22:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142562\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:49:20","slug":"china-has-stopped-selling-drones-to-ukraine-while-increasing-component-shipments-to-russia-bloomberg-meduza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142562\/","title":{"rendered":"China has stopped selling drones to Ukraine while increasing component shipments to Russia \u2014 Bloomberg \u2014 Meduza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">China has halted drone sales to Ukraine and other European countries but continues to supply Russia, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-29\/china-cut-drone-sales-to-west-but-supplies-them-to-russia-ukraine-says\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on Thursday, citing statements from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other informed sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">\u201cChinese Mavic is open for Russians but is closed for Ukrainians. There are production lines on Russian territory where there are Chinese representatives,\u201d Zelensky reportedly told journalists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">A European official who spoke to Bloomberg said Zelensky\u2019s remarks align with the E.U.\u2019s own assessments. According to the official, China also appears to have restricted deliveries of certain drone components,\u00a0including magnets used in drone motors,\u00a0to Western buyers, while increasing shipments to Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">Beijing denies supplying weapons to either side and insists it maintains strict controls on dual-use goods that could have military applications. \u201cChina\u2019s stance on Ukraine issue has been consistent and clear: we have been committed to stopping the war and promoting peace talks,\u201d China\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Meduza\u2019s daily newsletter<\/p>\n<p>A digest of Russia\u2019s investigative reports and news analysis. If it matters, we summarize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has halted drone sales to Ukraine and other European countries but continues to supply Russia, Bloomberg reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657,7888,7883,7886,7875,7868,7880,7870,7881,7887,7876,7864,7871,7865,7873,7874,7866,7869,7867,7885,7879,7872,7884,7882,7878,7877],"class_list":{"0":"post-142562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine","11":"tag-7888","12":"tag-7883","13":"tag-7886","14":"tag-7875","15":"tag-7868","16":"tag-7880","17":"tag-7870","18":"tag-7881","19":"tag-7887","20":"tag-7876","21":"tag-7864","22":"tag-7871","23":"tag-7865","24":"tag-7873","25":"tag-7874","26":"tag-7866","27":"tag-7869","28":"tag-7867","29":"tag-7885","30":"tag-7879","31":"tag-7872","32":"tag-7884","33":"tag-7882","34":"tag-7878","35":"tag-7877"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114593567339673616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}