Russia’s remote Far Eastern territories are becoming the focal point of what Ukrainian intelligence describes as a gradual foreign takeover, with China and North Korea tightening their economic and demographic grip on a region that makes up nearly half of the Russian Federation’s landmass.

According to a recent assessment by Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Moscow’s inability to sustain development in the Far East is leaving vast swaths of territory open to outside control. The agency warned that, over time, the Kremlin could lose effective authority over as much as 40 percent of its national territory. That is an area approaching seven million square kilometers with nearly eight million residents.

“Russia is increasingly paying its allies for support in the war against Ukraine wi

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