#Ukraine: A video recently surfaced showing Chinese mortar bombs in Ukraine, claiming they were supplied to the Russian army from China and then captured by Ukrainian forces.
Spoiler - this is absolutely not true.
Spoiler - this is absolutely not true.
Indeed, in the video we can see a crate full of Chinese-made mortar bombs - these are Type 63 60mm bombs (a.k.a Type 27) with Pai-1A fuzes. The ones seen on the video were manufactured in 1975. For those who aren't informed, the Russian army doesn't use any 60mm mortar platforms.
Moreover, these bombs were already documented by us back in May, when they were captured from the Ukrainian army in Rubizhne, Donetsk Oblast. The examples captured back then are even manufactured in the same year. 
To understand how these bombs appeared in Ukraine we will share images of the crates that they came in. These crates have zero markings in Chinese, typical of ammunition for export.
With high confidence we state these bombs came to Ukraine from Albania, which has a long history of military cooperation with China and uses large quantities of Chinese weapons. In March of this year Albania announced military aid but never unveiled precisely what was donated.
Given these factors, the mortar bombs seen on the video were previously captured by the Russian army from Ukrainian troops but were never used since then due to the absence of 60mm mortars.
And only now they returned to their original owners.
And only now they returned to their original owners.
[One tweet was edited; a detail that wasn't completely confirmed has been removed for now.]
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