How Chinese, Iranian companies profit in Russia-occupied Ukrainian regions

Kyiv, Ukraine – In November 2023, representatives of two Chinese companies signed a deal to supply stone-crushing machinery for construction projects.

Despite being inked in Moscow, the contract was not made with a sovereign nation. It was announced by Evgeny Solntsev, then the “prime minister” of the “People’s Republic of Donetsk”, a resource-rich, war-ravaged statelet carved o...