Stop Doing
Business with Russia
Russia initiated aggression against Ukraine in 2014. On February 24, 2022, it started a full-scale military invasion to the Ukrainian territory. This brutal war and military crimes of Russian troops caused a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine with thousands civilians killed and millions becoming refuges. As a reaction to this act of aggression, many international companies decided to leave the Russian market, while some others continue doing business there as usual. We track such decisions of companies and urge them to stop funding the war.
Hold off investments: company postponing future planned investment/development/marketing while continuing substantive business
Pausing InvestmentsReducing Activities: company scaling back some business operations while continuing others
Scaling BackPause operations: company temporarily curtailing operations while keeping return options open
SuspensionClean Break: the company completely halting Russian engagements or exiting Russia
WithdrawalExit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market or liquidated local entity(ies)
Exit Completed
Britain imposed sanctions against Turkish and UAE companies for military supplies to Russia. The sanctions list includes Aeromotus Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Trading LLC from Dubai, which supplies Russia with drones and their components.
Apram Aerospace of the Czech Republic supplied parts for AI Fly aircraft to other Russian companies both before and during the full-scale war.
The French division of the American group Astronics deals with avionics - flight, navigation and communication electronic systems that are installed on board an aircraft. PGA still serves VIP aircraft - Il-96 or Superjet-100 of Dmitry Medvedev, Sergei Shoigu, Dmitry Peskov, even Putin himself, as well as two FSB aircraft.
Ukraine has found Indian components in Iranian-designed Shahed 136 drones used by Russian troops in the war, said Andriy Yermak, head of the Presidential Office. The drone's power supply unit contained a bridge rectifier assembled in India from the international company Vishay Intertechnology, and the satellite navigation antenna contained a chip from the republic's Aura Semiconductor.
Chinese companies are transferring technology to equip the Russian army, Importgenius trade data shows.
Gilat SkyEdge satellite Internet communication systems manufactured in Ukraine are massively imported to Russia, where they can be used in war. Gilat SkyEdge is a satellite system manufactured by the American outsourcing company Jabil Circuit in Uzhhorod for the Israeli corporation Gilat Satellite Networks.
China-based Guilin Alpha Rubber & Plastics Technology Co., Ltd (Guilin Alpha) has facilitated the sale and shipment of thousands of aerospace components worth over a million dollars to HESA in Iran.
Hangzhou Fuyang Koto Machinery Co., Ltd (Koto Machinery), a China-based company, used its business infrastructure to facilitate the sale and shipment of aerospace components, including light aircraft engines applicable for Iran’s Shahed series UAVs, to HESA in Iran. To obscure its activity, Koto Machinery used Hong Kong-based front company, Raven International Trade Limited (Raven), to facilitate transactions worth millions of dollars for aerospace components.
Algeria has confirmed the purchase of Russian Su-57 Felon stealth fighters, making it the first foreign customer for the fifth-generation aircraft. Russia offers India its most advanced Su-57 stealth fighter jet. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) announced signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russia's Public Joint Stock Company United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC-UAC) for the production of civil commuter aircraft SJ-100 in Moscow, Russia.
From 2023 to 2024, a company part of British aerospace manufacturer HR Smith Group shipped equipment to an Indian firm that is the largest trading partner of Russia’s arms agency Rosoboronexport. HR Smith Group said its sales were legitimate and that the equipment was intended for India’s search and rescue network. The records do not prove that HR Smith’s products ended up in Russia. But they show that in some cases, the Indian company received equipment from HR Smith and within days sent spare parts to Russia with the same product identification codes. The components are for civilian and military use and have been designated by British and American authorities as critical to Russia’s military operations in Ukraine. Officials have urged exporters to conduct thorough checks to ensure their customers are not diverting banned equipment to Moscow. Indian state-owned company Hindustan Aeronautics is listed in public documents as a supplier to the Russian army, but is not subject to financial sanctions.
Kargoline was registered a month after the start of the war in Ukraine, when Airbus, Boeing and other parts manufacturers banned Russian airlines. Azamat Alkadyrov, a former middle-ranking Kyrgyz official, became the director and owner. In July 2023, the US imposed sanctions against Kargoline. It follows from the customs data that the Lithuanian Right Direction Aero is not the only company from which the Kyrgyz Kargoline bought spare parts for the supply of the Russian AI Fly. NAZK included the company among the international sponsors of the war.
NASA on alert as Russia threatens to abandon US astronaut and crash ISS - The Mirror. NASA officials have repeatedly stated that the International Space Station program is continuing as expected, with Friday's Progress 81 launch the latest example of steady and ongoing operations by Russia and all program partners. NASA did carry the launch live on NASA TV. Also, NASA refused to cut the number of employees in Russia.
JSC Information Satellite Systems (ISS) has only been sanctioned by the US, meaning it can freely import switches from the EU that are later used in the microchips of the rockets' onboard control systems. The switches are supplied by French company Radiall S.A.
Hangzhou Fuyang Koto Machinery Co., Ltd (Koto Machinery), a China-based company, used its business infrastructure to facilitate the sale and shipment of aerospace components, including light aircraft engines applicable for Iran’s Shahed series UAVs, to HESA in Iran. To obscure its activity, Koto Machinery used Hong Kong-based front company, Raven International Trade Limited (Raven), to facilitate transactions worth millions of dollars for aerospace components.
In the customs databases it is indeed indicated that Lithuanian Right Direction Aero sold AI Fly goods on behalf of Kargoline. Apparently, according to the documents, the spare parts were going to Kyrgyzstan, but in fact they ended up in Russia. Pavlo Chalapov is the director and owner of Right Direction Aero. He wrote that he did not sell anything to the Russian AI Fly. Chalapov said he sold parts to Kyrgyzstan and had personal guarantees from Kargoline owner and CEO Azamat Alkadyrov that the parts could not be re-exported to Russia: "As I see it, Kargoline kept us in the dark, lied to us and, obviously, forged documents." He added that from now on the company will not work with Kyrgyzstan either.
China-based S&C Trade PTY Co., Ltd (S&C Trade), its China-based employee Yun Xia Yuan, and China-based Shenzhen Caspro Technology Co., Ltd (Caspro), have facilitated the sale and shipment of thousands of aerospace components worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for fixed-wing, rotorcraft, and UAV applications to HESA in Iran.
China-based S&C Trade PTY Co., Ltd (S&C Trade), its China-based employee Yun Xia Yuan, and China-based Shenzhen Caspro Technology Co., Ltd (Caspro), have facilitated the sale and shipment of thousands of aerospace components worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for fixed-wing, rotorcraft, and UAV applications to HESA in Iran.
SpaceX delivers Russian, Native American women to space station. Starlink terminals on sale in Russia, although system does not work on country’s territory. The Russian military began using the Starlink satellite communication system at the front. Musk `denies selling Starlink terminals to Russia after Kyiv alleges their use in occupied areas. The Russians have Starlink at the front: the USA has launched an investigation against Elon Musk's company. Russian Presidential Envoy for International Cooperation Kirill Dmitriev has said that Russia is ready to supply a small nuclear power plant for the SpaceX mission to Mars.
Companies whose components were found inside Shahed-136. GLONASS, GPS ceramic radio frequency antenna manufactured by Tallysman. A Tallysman representative said: “We have been informed, and we agree, that some of our components have been misused in sophisticated military guidance systems in Ukraine. Tallysman has fully complied and will continue to cooperate with all Canadian and international export control agencies and authorities. To the extent possible for a product sold globally, we verify and review end customer identification and intended end use. We are very careful about what products we sell to whom." The navigation of the Shahed-238 is handled by the satellite and inertial systems traditional for these aircraft-missiles. To receive satellite navigation signals, a block of four TW1721 antennas from the Canadian company Tallysman is used.
Suspend supply of parts and deliveries/servicing, but continue substantial titanium purchases from Russia. Airbus Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury said on Feb. 16 that company data show Russian airlines flew his company’s jets more in the second half of 2022 than they did before the pandemic. Although Faury added that the company isn’t in contact with airlines in Russia, Airbus is starting to hear about difficulties keeping planes flying as they struggle to replace missing components. Between the start of the war and March 2023, Airbus imported at least $22.8 million worth of titanium from Russia; a fourfold increase in value and tonnes compared to the previous 13 months. Court accepts bankruptcy request for Airbus ex-Russia branch. French President Emmanuel Macron personally intervened to persuade Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give Airbus and other aerospace firms relief from sanctions on Russian titanium. In Russia, every second Airbus neo has stopped flying due to technical reasons. Airbus Defence and Space has replaced a Russian corporation in a European project to search for signs of life on Mars. A huge number of parts from the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, are falling into the hands of Russians despite sanctions, even as the companies claim to be complying with the sanctions regime.
A Chinese drone manufacturer has denied it has any commercial dealings with Russia, following a report claiming it was negotiating with the country’s military over the mass production of “kamikaze” drones.
That momentary suspension has now been made ultimate. Because the conflict grinds on and the West makes an attempt to additional isolate Russia, Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s director common, introduced on Tuesday that ties on the rover mission had been reduce for good. Refused to collaborate with Roskosmos on the ExoMars mission
A Cygnus cargo spacecraft is set to launch to the International Space Station on the final flight of a version of an Antares rocket with Russian and Ukrainian components. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, triggering sanctions that largely cut off Russia’s space industry from the West, Northrop Grumman said it had components for two more Antares launches, the NG-18 and -19 missions.
Stops sharing meteorological data with Russia. EUMETSAT suspended Russia's membership shortly after the invasion of Ukraine began, but individual member states, including the UK and the US, continued to share data with Russian specialists. This information is necessary for “forecasting activities,” but recently the information flow from Western satellites has practically dried up.
Promised to stop all activities in Russia. Safran confirmed they are still buying titanium from Vsmpo-Avismo but are working to reduce their Russia purchases. Ceased to receive income in Russia in 2023. Revenue increased in 2024 vs 2023 by more than +50%.
Pulls out of providing components for Russian civil aircraft
Turn off live traffic for Russia, cut ties with several Russian customers, some customers are still under review. Suspended future sales in Russia. As it is company's mission to map the world for the benefit of all, a small team in Moscow office remains, whose responsibility is to maintain the map of Russia.
UAC United Aircraft Corporation (Zhukovsky) has said it will completely withdraw from SuperJet International, a joint venture it owns together with Italy’s Leonardo that is responsible for marketing SSJ 100/95 regional jets outside Russia. The Russian aerospace and defence corporation would sell its 49% stake in SuperJet International to Mark AB Capital Investments of the United Arab Emirates and exit the program entirely. Emirati investors want to receive a European certificate for the SSJ 100 aircraft for release in the UAE.
Announced that it has completed the sale of its beverage packaging business in Russia to Arnest Group for $530 million. The purchaser, Arnest Group, has acquired all of Ball Corporation's Russian-based business.
GKN owner Melrose Industries delays payout to shareholders, blaming 'unquantifiable' Russian invasion. 07.03.2025: The legal entity LLC "WALTERSCHEID RUS" was liquidated.