The top U.S. commander in the Pacific warned senators Thursday that the military support that China and North Korea are giving Russia in its war on Ukraine is a security risk in his region as Moscow provides critical military assistance to both in return.

Two senior U.S. military leaders focused on the Indo-Pacific detailed to lawmakers what Russia is offering to their partners — North Korea and China — in exchange for aid for the war in Ukraine. “It’s a transactional symbiosis where each state fulfills the other state’s weakness to mutual benefit of each state,

Ukraine on Wednesday expanded on its claim that significant numbers of Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia's invading army, saying it had gathered detailed intelligence on more than 150 mercenaries Moscow allegedly recruited through social media.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Thursday of working systematically in China to recruit fighters for its war in Ukraine, days after announcing Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Moscow.