Since Russia began a full -fledged invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, the western countries have “driven in Russian brutal attack wars in Russia’s brutal attack war on Moscow to Moscow.” Is accused.
In response, Washington and Brussels hit hundreds of sanctioned Chinese companies and individuals in a pressure campaign to stop Cremlin’s technological flow to war machinery.
However, it is important in the drones and missiles that Moscow is used by Moscow in Ukraine’s Pamel, by about 20 companies in China, which are not mentioned in these west sanctions, and supplies Russia to Russia with galium, germanium, and antimon. It is an element.
A survey by a scheme, a survey division of the Ukrainic Service of RL/RL, has found that these Chinese companies are supplying these important minerals to Russian military industrial complexes, including state -run Conglomaltlostek. Ta. Weapon Kremlin is deployed in Ukraine.
According to a record of organizational crime and corruption report (OCCRP) and reviewed by schemes, at least one -third of these suppliers are partially owned by the Chinese government. I deny it publicly In the Russian War of the Ukrainian War, he burned fire and burned the flame.
Chinese seller
These Chinese suppliers, which are important minerals identified by the scheme, include the Yunnan Lincang Xinyuan Germanium industry, a BAO Wendong, a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The minority shareholders are two companies with a state capital.
Germanium, galium, and another Chinese company that provide antimon to Russia is an important technical group of Chinese companies with about 25 % of the national structure in China.
The third is Hynhe Technology, which is owned by Zhijiang Jingsheng Mechanical & Electrical, a major Chinese state -owned company in Hangzhou in the northwestern city.
Some of these Chinese metal recipients have a Russian company owned by Japan, which sold Silicon Waha to Micro Relectoronics manufacturers for weapons, customs, and tax records reviewed by Schemes Show. 。 Japan has adjusted the unique sanctions targeting Russian attacks with Washington and Brussels.
Following Russia’s February 2022 invasion, the United States and the EU imposed exports of antimon to galium, germanium, and Russia. However, China is not the western sanction party targeting Moscow. In other words, its effectiveness is limited.
“If there is a direct cooperation between China and Russian companies, sanctions of the west partner will not directly affect this. Vradislav Vrashk, Voladislav Vrashk, a policy member of President Ukraine Voldmia Zerency, told the scheme. Ta.
But VLASYUK, nevertheless, added that sanctions play an important role in complicating Russian supply chains.
Traditional nuclear and nuclear weapons
Many countries around the world, including the United States and EU member countries, maintain the dosage of galium, germanium, and antimon for the importance of microphrelectoronics and military use.
“All of these are elements that are part of all electronic systems, and even the war zone, military facilities, and all kinds of defense systems,” said Tethyana Solomakha, a senior lecturer of Kyiv Aviation Institute. I talked to.
Among many military applications in these minerals include nuclear weapons, night goggles, laser guidance systems, drones, warships, aircraft, missiles, and infrared sensors for tanks.
“These metals are used in microcesseser. Antonpobuta, the founder of the Ukrainian company Lab 418, who manufactures drones, told the scheme.
When China, the world’s largest gallium, germanium, and antimon producer, banned the company last month from supplying three minerals to the United States and supplying to the United States. New US export management Targeting Beijing, Chinese officials specifically Quoted military application。
However, Beijing has secured a company in these minerals in Russia, and buyers include several companies that have already been exposed to US sanctions.
In the west sanctions system, China became the only foreign supplier in Russia’s Gallum and Germanium in 2023, and was the largest antimon supplier in Russia, according to Russian customs data. 。
Rostech collaboration companies, where Chinese rare minerals end in Russian defense sector, include Germanium JSC, a direct Rostek subsidiary, and a private company called Germanium, which actively performs with Rostech.
The records reviewed by the scheme indicate that Germanium and applications provide Chinese rare metals to companies, including Urals optical and mechanical factories, a Russian military jet and helicopter manufacturer, Urals Optical and Machinery Plants.
Ural is an optical and mechanical plant Below both of us and EU sanctions,, I will explain itself itself As a Russian army’s “main supplier of optical system”.
Included in other Russian importers of rare Chinese minerals US licensed encore grapPlant electronic equipment manufacturer I visited Last year, from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, from Cryotrade Engineering, a company. Washington approval We cooperate with Rostek and other companies in the Russian military industry.
The record of public procurement indicates that Cryotrade Engineering, a Chinese gallium importer, is doing multiple businesses. Russian research institution Under US sanctions, including Kurchatov Institute, a nuclear weapon developer led by Putin’s close friends. Gallium is used to stabilize the plutonium of the atomic bomb.
Gallium and germanium are used in important technologies for Russian weapons, including the Laser Guidance System, which is used in the ORLAN-30 unmanned reconnaissance drone deployed by Moscow in Ukraine.
Russian Defense Ministry Pride In November, ORLAN-30 laser-specified rangefinder said, “You can accurately aim for the guidance bullet, whether it is a adjusted air bomb or a adjusted gun. “
Japanese supply chain link
A record reviewed by the scheme is that a Japanese company’s Ferotech Russian subsidiary, which produces silicone parts for microchip, imports antimon from China and sells Silicon Waha to the Micro Roelectronics Russian manufacturer. It is shown.
Ferrotec Nord subsidiary, based in Moscow, has imported Antimon from a company in Vital Technology Group, a Chinese Konglomarite, a Chinese Konglomarit with about 25 % of Chinese state organizations.
The latest shipments of these customs records obtained by the scheme were in February 2024, almost two years after Russia started full -fledged invasion.
According to tax records obtained by the scheme, Ferotech Nodes sold Silicon Wafers to a factory outside Moscow, called Epier.
Epier is one of the main suppliers of the Rostic Farm Angrotip component, and it is openly stated that it is collaborating with Russian weapons manufacturers.
In a Russian civil lawsuit in November 2023, Angstrem supplies microchips and semiconductor devices to the Russian Ministry of Defense and Roskosmos in the State Space Organization, and among other weapons producers, Russian weapon manufacturers, Uralvagonzavod, Uralvagonzavod. He said he was approved.
The company has added that the amount of orders has been quadrupled by Russia’s “Special Military Strategy”, a war official Kremlin of the War with Ukraine.
The scheme cooperated with a supplier and a Russian military industrial complex in seeking comments from Japan, which holds Ferotech for rare imports from China.
The company did not respond in time for the public.
By RFE/RL
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