Components manufactured in more than 20 countries have been found in the missiles and drones with which Russian occupiers attack Ukraine every day.
This was stated by Natalia Nestor, Deputy Director of the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Examinations of the Ministry of Justice, in comments to Ukrinform.
Russian missiles and drones contain components from 20 countries: what is known
— Our experts find foreign components in the missiles that Russia uses to attack Ukraine. The missiles and drones that Russia uses for daily attacks on peaceful cities and villages in Ukraine contain foreign components produced in more than 20 countries. These are China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan, the USA, Canada, Iran, etc., — she said.
According to Nestor, in 2023, the institute's experts conducted about 30 thousand studies related to the facts of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.
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KNIISE experts study almost all types of Russian missiles: Iskander, Kinzhal, Kalibr, Kh-101, Kh-55, Kh-59, etc., which Russia launches at Ukraine. In addition, the objects of study are strike unmanned aerial vehicles such as Shaheed-136, Shaheed-121, as well as reconnaissance drones Kartograf, Orlan-10 and Supercam.
— For example, in Shahedah these are servo drives, processors, switches, generators from the USA, contact tips from Iran, spark plugs, indicators from China, electric fuel pumps from Germany and Great Britain, seals from Taiwan, Schottky modules from South Korea and the like.
In the Kinzhal missile, these are sensors from Spain, buffers, diodes, transceivers, converters from the USA, flash memory from Taiwan, filters from Japan, relays from Germany, converters from Switzerland, and so on. This means that all missiles and drones, their main high-tech component, without which they could not exist, are not made in Russia, but in other countries. We are talking about components of navigation systems, control, guidance, microcircuits, various chips, sensors, boards, etc., — the expert said.
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Nestor added that most electronic components are not exclusively designed for weapons. There are dual-use parts that are also used in everyday life: in washing machines, computer technology, network communications, and the like.
Such goods are imported for one use, and in the end they are made into weapons components. Missiles of the same type do not have the same set of parts in specific systems. They proceed from what they have, what they were able to bring to the Russian Federation.
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The expert also noted that microchips from Dutch companies NXP and Nexperia, despite sanctions, continue to enter Russia. They were found in the Shahed-136, ZALA, PTERO, Eleron-3SV, Kub, Orlan-10, Takhion, Geran-2 UAVs, and the X-101 and Iskander missiles.
