From a shabby office in Hong Kong to a house in suburban Florida, these are the businesses allowing Russia to build drones that are killing Ukrainians.
abc.net.au/news/global-supply-trail-that-leads-to-russias-killer-drones/101780832The hundreds of Russian drones hovering ominously over the Ukrainian battlefield owe their existence to an elastic, sanctions-evading supply chain that often runs through a shabby office above a Hong Kong marketplace, and sometimes through a yellow stucco home in suburban Florida.
The Special Technology Centre, which once made a variety of surveillance gadgets for the Russian government and now focuses on drones for the military, was first targeted by US sanctions after then-president Barack Obama said it had worked with Russian military intelligence to try to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
Russia's Ministry of Defence did not respond to questions about the impact of sanctions and its relationship to the Special Technology Centre. Asia Pacific Links' owner, Anton Trofimov, is an expatriate Russian who graduated from a Chinese university and has other business interests in China as well as a company in Toronto, Canada, according to his LinkedIn profile and other corporate filings.
Texas Instruments and AMD, the owner of Xilinx, said their companies had not directly shipped or approved shipments into Russia for many months and were complying with all US sanctions and export controls.
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