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Chinese assault troops trained by the Russians: thus Putin prepares the hybrid war
Published on September 27, 2025
Russia is helping to train and equip the Chinese aviotratresportate forces in the assault tactics and in the hybrid war.The Financial Times and the Washington Post support it, based on internal documents extracted from Russian servers and published online by the Hacker Black Moon group, viewed later by the Ukrainian Center for Defense Reforms and the British Royal United Services Institute.If confirmed, it would be a turning point that offers new details on military cooperation between Beijing and Moscow, which would therefore be deeper than expected even in the absence of a treaty of mutual defense.
As the recent great strength of strength has shown during the maxi military parade of September 3, the Chinese armed forces reached an considerable level to say the least.But unlike the Russian ones, they have no real combat experience.Russia would have accepted to equip and train a Chinese aviotratresportato battalion and to share its experience in air -launched armored vehicles.This would allow China to access Russian abilities in one of the few areas in which Moscow's army remains more advanced than that of Beijing: the aviotratresportate forces.
In detail, in October 2024 Russia would have agreed to sell to the Air Force of the Popular Liberation Army: 37 light amphibians, 11 anti -tall self -propelled cannons, 11 troops armored vehicles.The main contract for the supply of the equipment - with a provisional value of 584 million dollars - would also include the transfer of several command and observation vehicles and special parachute systems designed for the air launch of heavy loads from great heights.Similar tactics were used during the secret operation of Crimea in 2014, when parachutists without insignia took control of key airports such as Belbek, in Sebastopoli, before the arrival of reinforcements by air.
As the Washington Post explains, separate documents describe Chinese paratroopers training programs on the use in combat armaments and advanced command and control systems used to direct the operations.The training would be conducted by Russian specialists in Russia and subsequently in China.
According to the Royal United Services Institute, the training and transfers described in the files would give the Chinese Air Force "an expanded aerial maneuver capacity" which offers "offensive options against Taiwan, the Philippines and other island states of the region".The files also describe plans to train unity of the popular army of liberation with aviotraSported operations designed to disguise invasion forces, and illustrate secret insertions of special forces through long -range parachute systems.Once on the ground, the Financial Times supports, these teams could sabotage the aerial defenses and stop logistics, opening the road to massive landings by air and sea.Cybernetic and electronic war would also be used, drones of drones and baits to overwhelm the defenders.
The technical implications are potentially remarkable.In particular, Taiwan could fear a greater risk of combined air attacks.On a symbolic level, the leaked documents seem to demonstrate that cooperation between Russia and China goes beyond joint exercises, but could reach the development of real interoperability.An element that confirms how difficult it appears, if not utopian, to create the plan that Donald Trump had in mind: Putin (or XI Jinping) individually approaching to be hired between the two and move them away.