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After Russia invaded Ukraine, the West imposed unprecedented sanctions against the aggressor state. Their goal is to reduce the revenues of the Russian budget, harm the well-being of responsible officials and the entire population, and reduce the power of the military sector.
Joe Biden
President of the United States
“Based on our actions and the actions of our allies and partners, we expect that more than half of Russia’s high-tech imports will be suspended.”
This will be a blow to their ability to further modernize their military. This will reduce the competitiveness of their aerospace industry, including the space program. This will affect their ability to build ships and reduce their competitiveness in the economy. And it will be a major blow to Putin’s long-term strategic ambitions.”
However, the sanctions have hurt the Russian economy more slowly than expected. This year it is planned to spend almost a third of the entire state budget on military purposes. Some types of rockets are sold out. However, they continue to kill Ukrainians because Russia was already able to produce new Ukrainians during the war.
Volodimir’s Zelensky
President of Ukraine
“This afternoon (June 13, 2023), rescue and debris clearance operations were completed in Kryvyi Rih following a terrorist missile attack. Unfortunately, 11 people died, including a child…
Unfortunately, Russia is still able to source critical components for the production of missiles from companies around the world, including those of some partner countries. These components are then shipped to Russia via various routes. If we take, for example, one of the missiles that hit Kryvyi Rih today, then about 50 parts, mainly microelectronics, were manufactured in other countries.”
Some of the missiles and drones used against Ukraine end up in the hands of experts and can thus be examined. They found 250 Western-made parts in Russian weapons, mostly microchips that Russia itself does not produce. Western countries have banned the supply of such products to Russian military companies. Nevertheless, Russia was able to increase the production rate of missiles and other weapons last year.
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Russia receives the necessary components bypassing sanctions. Deliveries are made via third countries such as China, Turkey or the United Arab Emirates. Customs data is falsified so that the parts are supposedly imported for civilian purposes but are then redirected to the military sector. Media reports that Russia is buying refrigerators and washing machines in large quantities just to get microchips.
Ukrainians have found hundreds of chips from the American company “Analog Devices” in the Iranian-made drones “Shahed” and “Mohayer”, the Russian-made unmanned aerial vehicles “Lancet”, the ballistic missiles “Iskander”, “Kinzal” and cruise missiles. Kalibr” and other weapon systems.
This particular chip was in the Kalibr rocket. The company that once imported such devices to Russia was “Eltekh Komponent”. Until the end of last year, it belonged to Andrejas Peregudas, who lives in Latvia. He told “The Insider” that microchips from “Analog Devices” have no longer been imported into Russia since 2019. Information from the customs database “ImportGenius” shows that the company continued to do this until March 1, 2022.
Nicholas Smith
Analog Devices representative
“Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and in accordance with U.S. and European Union (EU) sanctions, Analog Devices suspended operations in Russia and the Russian-supported regions of Ukraine and Belarus and immediately instructed all of our distributors to stop shipping our products to these regions. Any shipment to these regions post-sanctions is a direct violation of our policies and is the result of the unauthorized resale or diversion of Analog Devices products.”
“The Insider” writes that the chips are now arriving in Russia via the Chinese company “Win Key Limited”. Peregud denies involvement in the plan.
“Eltekh Komponent” was hit by Ukrainian sanctions last May. Data from Latvian registers show that the owner of “Eltekh” owns a company here and at least two properties in Jurmala.
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