Ukraine war briefing: Two Chinese under arrest in Neptune missile espionage case

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Ukraine said it had arrested a Chinese father and son, both suspected of spying on Kyiv's Neptune cruise missile programme. Counterintelligence officials detained a 24-year-old former student in Kyiv after they provided him with "technical documentation" related to Neptune production, Ukraine's SBU said. They later swooped on his father when he visited Ukraine from China to "personally coordinate" his son's work and smuggle out the documents to the Chinese special services, the SBU said. A Ukrainian official told Reuters the two men were the first Chinese people arrested for spying since Moscow's 2022 full-scale invasion. Kyiv has repeatedly accused China…