Russian Federation

The authorities said that one of these campaigns was "identical" to an operation "run by the Russian Federation in Ukraine".

"We have finally received information that China is supplying weapons to the Russian Federation," he said.

Ovsiannikov, the former governor of Sevastopol, also served as the Russian Federation's deputy minister for industry and trade before he was dismissed and expelled from the ruling United Russia party in 2020.

"All territories that have become subjects of the Russian Federation... are an integral part of our country, Russia," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"As for the new territories, it's the same. We are ready to attract foreign partners to the so-called new, to our historical territories, which have returned to the Russian Federation," he added.