Chinese ‘eye’ over Lviv. Did Beijing aid Russia track down the mark of an attack on an LPP warehouse?

Time convergence of Russian rocket attack in the western Ukraine with the passage of a Chinese spy satellite over the same area again sparked a debate on Beijing's intelligence support for Moscow. Let's combine a fewer dots of events that have occurred in fresh days just beyond the east border of our country.

On the night of Saturday to Sunday, from 4 to 5 October, Russian forces conducted a precise rocket attack on infrastructure facilities in the Lviv Oblast. This attack was widely described in mainstream media, but it is worth paying attention to respective events, not so publicized, which accompanied this attack. By the strength of things, only part of the information I give below are hard facts, co-incidences between them and conclusions to which only conjecture leads, but they force reflection.

Flight, attack and destroyed warehouses

The attack itself was, of course, a fact. Another fact: 1 of the destroyed goals was a large warehouse complex operated by the logistics partner of the Polish clothing company LPP (owner of the brands Reserved or Cropp).

Another fact (to be checked in publically available satellite flight bases in orbit around the Earth) pointed out by many OSINT analysts (white intelligence) is the operation of at least 1 (some sources say even three) of military satellites belonging to China over western Ukraine. More specifically, a fewer hours before the attack on the Lviv circuit was operated by the Chinese reconnaissance satellite Yaogan-42 02. This peculiar satellite was launched by China on 20 April 2024:

SAST lanzó anoche 20 de abril a las 23:45 UTC el cohete CZ-2D Y103 desde Xichang con el satelite militar de observación de la Tierra Yaogan 42-02 (遥感四十二号02星). El Yaogan 42-01 despegó el pasado 2 de abril. pic.twitter.com/Ko1pqFDE9p

— Daniel Marín (@Eurekilog) April 21, 2024

It is assumed that at least any (some sources talk about a full series of Yaogan satellites, the full number of which is about 60 units, but the exact number of them is unknown, any of them are top secret) Chinese satellites are equipped with radar with synthetic aperture (SAR), which allows to make images with very advanced resolution even at night and at full cloudiness. specified precise temporal coordination suggests that the data collected by the Chinese unit could have been transmitted to the Russians to accurately track the target.

Traces indicate a silent alliance

So did China mark satellites for the Russians? There is no direct evidence of scanning targets (at least in the public information space), but temporal convergence is simply a fact (data from orbital monitoring). Admit it, it makes you think, especially since it's not the first time you've seen a akin pattern.

In earlier phases of the conflict, situations were noted erstwhile Chinese SAR satellites monitored Ukrainian facilities just before Russian attacks. The incidental of early October 2025, however, is another, strong lead on the deepening intelligence cooperation on the Beijing-Moscow line. Although China is not officially engaged in military conflict, it consistently provides Russia with economical and technological support, including components for the production of weapons.

Providing precise satellite data to destruct key logistics infrastructure for supplies from the West, including the facilities utilized by NATO companies, would be another step in the escalation of this silent alliance. The attack on targets located just a fewer twelve kilometres from the Polish border, possibly utilizing Chinese data, poses a direct challenge to the safety of the full east flank of NATO.

You're asking for the celebrated words of Vegetius: Si vis pacem, para bellum (you want peace, prepare for war).

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