{"id":1249009,"date":"2025-06-19T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nyt-china-is-using-the-war-in-ukraine-to-collect-data-on-the-russian-army\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:24:31","slug":"nyt-china-is-using-the-war-in-ukraine-to-collect-data-on-the-russian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/nyt-china-is-using-the-war-in-ukraine-to-collect-data-on-the-russian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: China is using the war in Ukraine to collect data on the Russian army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hacker groups affiliated with the PRC have repeatedly hacked Russian institutions to search for Russian military secrets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/19\/world\/europe\/china-hackers-russia-war-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> in The New York Times, citing cyber analysts.<\/p>\n<p> Despite public &#8220;friendship,&#8221; China is using Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine for espionage. It is collecting data on modern combat tactics, weapons, and front-line experience to prepare for potential conflicts.<\/p>\n<p> The NYT notes that Chinese troops lack combat experience. Experts say that China sees the war in Ukraine as a chance to gain information about modern warfare.<\/p>\n<p> A classified document from the Russian FSB obtained by the NYT shows that Russian intelligence is concerned about China&#8217;s goal of acquiring Russian defense expertise and technology. The document also mentions China&#8217;s intention to learn from Russia&#8217;s military experience in Ukraine. Russian intelligence calls China an &#8220;enemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The scale of China&#8217;s hacking activities against Russia indicates both a higher level of mutual distrust and the Kremlin&#8217;s reluctance to share everything it learns on the battlefield in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to Palo Alto Networks, one Chinese government-funded group targeted Rostec, the Russian state-owned defense conglomerate, seeking information on satellite communications, radars, and electronic warfare.<\/p>\n<p> Other hackers used malicious files designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word to infiltrate Russian aviation industry facilities and government agencies.<\/p>\n<p> It should be noted that Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-kytay-blokuie-drony-mavic-dlia-ukrainy-ale-postachaie-ikh-rosii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zelenskyy stated that China has practically blocked the sale of Mavic drones to Kyiv, instead supplying them to Russia<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleg Ivashchenko, stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kytay-dopomahaie-rosiyskym-viyskovym-zavodam-stvoriuvaty-zbroiu-podrobytsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China supplies special chemicals, gunpowder, and machine tools to 20 Russian military-oriented factories<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacker groups affiliated with the PRC have repeatedly hacked Russian institutions to search for Russian military secrets. This was reported in The New York Times, citing cyber analysts. Despite public &#8220;friendship,&#8221; China is using Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine for espionage. It is collecting data on modern combat tactics, weapons, and front-line experience to prepare for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1013084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1249009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}