China has facilitated the establishment of production lines in Belarus capable of manufacturing approximately half a million ammunition shells annually that are supplied to Russia, according to Matviy Kupreychik, a public representative of BelPol, an organization of former Belarusian law enforcement officers.
"China helped the Belarusian regime establish production of 240,000 152-millimeter artillery shells and 240,000 122-millimeter rockets for the Russian GRAD system. This is annual data. Thus, at one Belarusian enterprise, at least half a million shells are produced," Kupreychik said, clarifying that these are shell blanks without explosives inside.
China sold Belarus the production lines for manufacturing these ammunition blanks, according to BelPol. Kupreychik said that the Lukashenka regime currently lacks the capability to produce explosives independently due to the absence of production facilities.
"Therefore, they produce blanks, that is, empty shells," he explained.
The BelPol representative revealed that Belarus was able to manufacture these blanks because China sold the country assembly lines for their production.
"Belarusian engineers could not install this ammunition production line themselves. For this, China sent ten of its engineers to Belarus who installed it. It already exists. And a very interesting point is that China was so interested in installing this line that it has now placed its workers at two Belarusian enterprises, who sit at these enterprises and control the process," he emphasized.
According to Kupreychik, the blanks are manufactured in Belarus exclusively under the state defense order of the Russian Federation. "This is currently the only buyer, the Lukashenka regime has no alternative," he stated.
Last week, Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkänen said that China is significantly financing Russia's war effort, which increases the security threat to Europe and poses a challenge to NATO. "It supplies military components, cooperates in the defense industry, organizes joint military exercises and other various large-scale activities in the Arctic, Indo-Pacific region and Europe," Häkänen emphasized.
