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Chinese Equipment Restarts Production at Donetsk Quarry Idle Since 2008
Chinese firms supplied crushing and screening machinery that restarted operations at the Karansky Quarry near Myrne village. The site now supplies stone for construction projects across Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. washingtontimes.com reported the developments based on occupation authority announcements and a joint NGO study.
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Chinese machinery has restarted production at the Karansky Quarry near Myrne village in occupied Donetsk, a site idle since 2008. Occupation authorities reopened the crushed-stone operation after Russia’s 2022 invasion. In November 2023 Yevgeny Solntsev, then head of the Moscow-installed government in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, announced agreements with two Chinese firms for the required equipment.
Photos released by occupation authorities showed Chinese representatives posing with Russian-backed officials in front of Chinese, Russian and separatist flags. Stone from the quarry now feeds construction projects in occupied Ukraine. Local residents have taken to calling the site the “Chinese quarry,” washingtontimes.com reported.
A report by the Ukrainian NGO Eastern Human Rights Group and the British Institute for Strategic Studies and Security identified at least 17 Chinese companies active in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Their work spans mining equipment, construction machinery, telecommunications, financial services, transport links and infrastructure.
In occupied Donbas, Chinese equipment has replaced European and Ukrainian machinery at multiple sites.
SANY Heavy Industry supplied tunneling equipment for Donbas mines in 2024. Shandong Mining Machinery has been linked to conveyor systems at the Komsomolets Donbassa mine. Liming Heavy Industry supplied equipment to the Nedra group, which works mineral resources in occupied Donetsk.
WISDRI, a metallurgical engineering institute based in Wuhan, has been approached about possible modernization work at metallurgical plants. Beijing has not recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea or its claims over four additional Ukrainian regions. Its official position remains that it respects state sovereignty and supports peace talks.
