China's Foreign Ministry on Jan. 29 dismissed reporting that Chinese tools have been used to produce Russia's Oreshnik nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, which have been twice deployed against Ukraine. The news comes after the Telegraph said it had identified at least $10.3 billion worth of equipment China has sent to boost Russia's military industry, including machines and tools used to build Oreshnik warheads. China has been a key ally to Russia throughout the full-scale invasion, helping Moscow weather Western sanctions and becoming the leading source of dual-use goods necessary for the Russian defense industry. Russia has vaunted the Oreshnik, an intermediate-range ballistic missile that can travel at 13,000 kilometers per hour (8,000 miles per hour), as impossible for Western systems to intercept. While Russian authorities present Oreshnik as a novel and modern weapon, experts believe it is mostly based on the RS-26 Rubezh, a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile first produced in 2011.