Four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy is showing clear signs of structural exhaustion. The contours of a genuine economic endgame are coming into view for Russia. This is the finding of a new Kiel Report published by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics.
I mean China isn’t supporting the Russian economy per se; they’re just trading with them.
They are only supporting the military?
[Russians covertly trained by China return to fight in Ukraine, sources say
](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russians-covertly-trained-by-china-return-fight-ukraine-sources-say-2026-05-19/)
TIL, but also literally yes.
That is literally the economy.
True, but it’s not support. China’s posture towards the Ukraine war is much closer to neutral than pro-Russia. The top comment implies that China is somehow giving aid (or something analogous to aid) to Russia, but that’s just not happening; what China is doing regarding the Russian invasion the default and it’s what most of the rest of the world is doing: nothing.
Eh, I would argue that trade agreements and active orientation to Russia of certain business sectors counts as supporting, but I’m no economist, perhaps you’re right.
That might count as support, but do you have examples of this?