Beijing: According to Saturday's Wall Street Journal report, Russian military-grade components are being provided by Chinese defense companies.
According to the report, thousands of shipments have been successfully completed despite repeated attempts by Washington to block the flow of such components through Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
The newspaper reported that since Russia began its military operation in Ukraine last February, 84,000 shipments have been made, citing Russian customs data that was allegedly obtained by Washington-based think tank C4ADS .
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According to reports, these include "dual-use" component items that can be used in military or civilian applications - such as navigational computers, semiconductors, aircraft components and communications jamming gear.
The US has repeatedly urged China to comply with sanctions imposed on the Russian defense industry, and has sanctioned some Chinese companies it claims are in violation of these sanctions.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying that Beijing denied breaking sanctions and that the claims were "pure speculation and an intentional exaggeration."
Most of the Chinese and Russian companies allegedly involved declined to respond to messages from the newspaper, and Russia did not comment.
America's partners abroad have been less enthusiastic while Washington's European allies have severed ties with Russia, often to the detriment of their own economies.
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According to the report, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, both of which Moscow has refused to impose sanctions on, were entry points for many of the components China allegedly sends to Russia.
The US Treasury Department's top sanctions official visited both countries this week, pressing local companies to cut ties with Russian organizations or risk losing access to the West.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Beijing this week was due to be postponed because of the controversy over the presence of an alleged Chinese diplomat.
China and Russia have continued to deepen their ties, according to Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu, who visited Moscow earlier this week, despite relations between Washington and Beijing at a historically low level.
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While that was going on, the US retaliated with more sanctions, blacklisting nearly two dozen people and organizations on Wednesday for allegedly helping Russia obtain military technology.