14 Washington Times reported that the Government of Ukraine has announced that a Russian man was sentenced to six years imprisonment on the grounds that its spying for China, for China to build aircraft carriers to provide military secrets. Report quoted Ukraine's "Segodnya" newspaper and other media sources, the Russian man in Alexander? Ye Palma Cove (AleksandrYermakov) is trying to transfer to China can significantly accelerate the speed of China's deployment of the first aircraft carrier arrested confidential data.
U.S. media said last year, the Chinese military announced the start of construction of China's first aircraft carrier, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies report confirmed that Beijing is seeking power projection platform that requires that a relatively small space in the sea on the aircraft carrier deck excellent pilots taking off and landing.

U.S. defense and intelligence officials said, China will deploy aircraft to defend Taiwan, the United States plans to have a significant impact. A Navy official said it is not only able to expand to attack military facilities in Taiwan, mainland China range aircraft, but also force reunification with Taiwan in mainland China when the U.S. Navy to help defend Taiwan, the initiative complicated.

U.S. media said that China ordered leaves Palma Cove land-based naval air force Ukraine to get on Testing and Training Centre (NITKA) of confidential information. The center is located in Saki city of Crimea, was built in the era of the former Soviet Union, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. Currently, it is still the world is the only such training center.

For the deployment of Russian-made aircraft carrier deck, flying leaps slide (rather than the United States and France, the aircraft carrier deck of all-pass) of the countries, Ukraine, land-based naval air force testing and training center is very significant. The only two slip hop the Russian Navy aircraft carrier is "Admiral Kuznetsov" aircraft carrier and its sister ship "Varyag" number, which in 1998 was purchased from Ukraine in China. At present, Russia is still Ukraine train its pilots, but that it is in Russia's Krasnodar Noor Florida (KrasnodarskyKray) to build a similar facility. Allegedly, the new facilities will be completed in 2012.

U.S. media said the Security Service of Ukraine choose to disclose acts of espionage leaves Palma Cove, this behavior is unusual. Media reports in Ukraine, the event open to the media's anti-espionage officials known as "OlegN". Accordingly person, leaves Palma Cove is in its 35-year-old son with the help of the Chinese service.

The result leaves Palma Cove remuneration received, far more than his long run "tourists" business income. The Ukrainian Security Service officials said the son leaves Palma Cove (also known as Alexander) registered "offshore area, a company providing services in the areas of weapons delivery." About the company mentioned, it provides a full range of military technology, testing methods have to order the program was originally based on design information.

U.S. media said the arms deal in Cyprus registered companies often used as intermediaries, selling weapons from Ukraine, and defense technology. Then, the mutual influence of these companies, representing the country of purchase and the state arms export monopoly Ukraine - Ukraine's special export company (Ukrspetsexport).

In the past decade or so, leaves Palma Cove State illegally purchased by the former Soviet Union defense-related technologies in Western intelligence and security personnel know. U.S. media also said that since the Soviet collapse, China has been in the recruitment of former Soviet military experts.

U.S. media said the Security Service of Ukraine noted that, in addition to "electronic data, drawings and construction documents, that they have also prepared some 1,500 pages of documents, to the Chinese side." This information is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In 1998, China spent 2 million shipyard purchased from Ukraine, "Varyag" number, then ship to China's Dalian shipyard, where the modification has been carried out for a few years.

U.S. media said, according to Ukrainian news reports, China's state-owned news agency quoted military officials as saying they plan to build a carrier-based naval aviation capability, but in the training of national carrier pilots, the "Chinese people need their own land-based naval aviation testing and training centers, and they have started to build their own complex. "

U.S. intelligence officials that China plans to build aircraft carriers of the first signs that China began a decade ago for land-based short takeoff and landing training. Currently, in the northeast city of Liaoning Province Xing, China is building a large aircraft carrier pilot training base. Xi'an have also established other facilities for the training of carrier personnel and engineering support experts.