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Sanctions Evasion

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35

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US takes no action against its companies whose components Russia uses in missiles - Bloomberg

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Bohdan Babaiev

Date:

October 3, 2024

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RBC Ukraine

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US authorities do not accuse American companies whose products Russia uses in missile production of violating export controls. Their components continue to be supplied to Russia through intermediaries, according to Bloomberg. In 2022, the US and its allies imposed export controls that banned the supply of a broad range of technologies to Russia to undermine its defense industry. The restrictions made it illegal to supply Western-designed semiconductors to Russia if they could be used for military purposes, even if they were manufactured in China. However, components produced by several Western companies are regularly found in Russian missiles, such as the Iskander. This includes American companies like Silicon Laboratories Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Analog Devices, the German firm Infineon Technologies, and the American company with Chinese capital Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. A significant number of the detected parts were made after February 2022... Ukrainian officials claim that Western semiconductor companies are not making efforts to monitor their supply chains and halt the flow of chips to Russian military factories. "Companies can say that they’re not selling anything to Russia, that they’re just selling to some intermediaries. But it doesn’t change the fact that those parts are getting into Russia in huge volumes," said Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, in a comment to Bloomberg. Budanov stated that the only way to block the Kremlin's ability to shell Ukrainian territory is to stop the flow of semiconductors to Russia. "That’s not happening. Everybody’s averting their eyes from what’s going on," he said.

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