Russia cannot survive without Chinese support and its war on Ukraine would end tomorrow if China would stop its support, according to Keith Kellogg, the US Special Envoy to Ukraine.
In a rare criticism of the China-Russia nexus, Keith Kellogg, the US Special Envoy to Ukraine, has said that Russia cannot survive without Chinese support and its war on Ukraine would end tomorrow if China would stop its support.
At a session of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) at Kyiv, Kellog said that Russia was the junior partner of China and dependent on China to continue the war.
“If you look at China and Russia together, Russia is the junior partner. They’re not the Chinese. The Chinese have got the economic strength, they’ve got the military strength, they’ve got the history clearly behind them and the leadership behind them as well. And I think that if China cut off support for Russia today, the war will be over tomorrow. I think they cannot survive without China’s support,” said Kellog.
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Since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Chinese support has kept Russia’s economy as well as war-waging capabilities afloat. China has provided Russia with drones, munitions, machinery to make weapons, dual-use goods, and provided the country consumer goods as it lost access to Western suppliers. At the same time, it also absorbed Russian energy exports, becoming the