China supplies equipment to Belarusian factories that make shells for Russia

China has helped Belarus set up a mass production of artillery shell casings, which are then transferred to Russia. According to Matvey Kupreychik of BelPol, an organization of former Belarusian security forces, this amounts to about half a million shells each year.

This was stated by Matviy Kupreychik, a public representative of the organization of former employees of the Belarusian security forces BelPol, DW reports.

The launch of production was made possible by the fact that China installed a special line in Belarus and sent its engineers – about ten Chinese specialists participated in the installation of equipment and the launch of the production cycle. In addition, according to Kupreychik, Chinese technicians are still present at two Belarusian enterprises, controlling the manufacturing process.

BelPol claims that Belarus produces about 240,000 152-mm shells and the same number of 122-mm Grad rockets annually — but these are not full-fledged ammunition, but so-called “blanks,” that is, blanks without explosives. Kupreychik explains that Belarus allegedly lacks the production capacity to create an explosive charge, so the country is limited to producing empty shells.

It is important that all these metal blanks, according to him, are manufactured exclusively for the Russian state order – Minsk has no alternative customers, in particular, other countries, according to BelPol. Thus, Belarus is an important part of the logistics of ammunition supplies to the Russian Federation.

This cooperation has deeper consequences: involving China in the production of military components increases the role of Belarus as a strategic partner of the Kremlin, and also creates an additional challenge for sanctions policy – after all, part of the production takes place outside the Russian Federation, but the end consumer is the Russian armed forces.

As a reminder, Belarus has declared its readiness for negotiations with Ukraine to “find a consensus” on ending the war . The Minsk initiative may be part of a broader diplomatic strategy to overcome international isolation.

As reported, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, during a trip to the Vitebsk region , threatened to use the Oreshnik missile system against European countries in the event of a “bad” development of events. According to him, the Oreshnik will be put on combat duty in December, so “don’t rush into it.”

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