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Р&D Institute of Electronic Instruments (NIIEP), which is a part of Rostec, is also referred to as the developer of the "brains" for "Kinzhals." Their contractor, AO "Radiant-EK," supplied integrated microchips directly to NPK KBM. "Radiant-EK" continues to import items during wartime, including coils and tapes for protective packaging of electronic components from Germany, with Advantek Gmbh as the sender.

Such as the R8 rifles of the German manufacturer Blaser, freely sold in Russia. They appeared not only on mercenary sales portals, but also recently at the arms fair in Moscow.

Export components for drones in Russia.

For the production of UAVs, the Russians need epoxy resin, which was supplied to Alabuga by the Russian company Kompozit-Vyroby, which, according to customs data, purchased the material from two German companies — R&G Faserverbundwerkstoffe and Goettle Advanced Products GmbH & Co.Kg.

In December 2022, Hans Wrage supplied Rusimpex with $69,000 worth of gun cases and hunting clothing. In October 2022, Kolchuga, a company owned by Khubutia's partner Rafik Etumyan, received a batch of $11,000 worth of hunting clothing and footwear.

JSC Kolomensky Zavod supplies the Ministry of Defense with diesel engines for warships. The enterprise produces engines for the Russian Navy based on the D500. Kolomensky Zavod orders screw springs from Heinrich Eibach GmbH in Germany, safety valves are supplied by HOERBIGER Wien GmbH from Austria, and D49-type engines from Poland’s Piston Ring Manufacturer Prima.

The supplier of gun drills and other tools from the manufacturer Sandvik to NPK KBM is LLC "Mir stanochyka." This Russian defense contractor receives products from Sandvik through the company IR-Logistik GMBH in Berlin.

As The Insider found out, Donobuv also supplies the armed forces with shoe glue and solvents (supplied by Jakob KECK Chemie GmbH) and leather (supplied by Salamander SPS GmbH & Co. KG) from Germany, while the soles are imported from Italy (Tacchificio Campiglionese).

Turning machines for NPK KBM were supplied by LLC "KEB-Rus." This company is a partner of the German company KEB, an authorized supplier of components, and a developer of control systems for technological processes and equipment based on them. Even during the war, "KEB-Rus" imports items such as cables from Germany.

The data from Russia is available to the ZET shows that tools and machine parts from German manufacturer Kemmler Präzisionswerkzeuge GmbH end up with the Russian armaments industry.

Machinery from New York-based company NSH USA Corporation used to build Russian weapons used in war on Ukraine. NSH USA's president told that NSH Group halted all trade with Russia after the invasion last year. But NSH signaled its intention to continue supplying Russia with its products in its annual report, published almost half-a-year after Russia's full-scale invasion had commenced, believing any contracts signed before the Russian offensive started were above board. The H in NSH, a subsidiary called Hegenscheidt-MFD, made no fewer than 40 shipments to Russia worth $17 million between May of 2022 and March of this year. "NewsHour" reached out to the U.S. Department of Commerce to check if NSH had applied for American export licenses for the machines we traced to Russian defense firms.But the agency said it couldn't comment on company-specific licensing requests.

For the production of UAVs, the Russians need epoxy resin, which was supplied to Alabuga by the Russian company Kompozit-Vyroby, which, according to customs data, purchased the material from two German companies — R&G Faserverbundwerkstoffe and Goettle Advanced Products GmbH & Co.Kg.

The German company Vansped Logistics (on behalf of Reißaus & Baumberg Maschinenbau GmbH) has already supplied Stan LLC with technical equipment for foundries after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to the ImportGenius database, deliveries were made in July 2022.

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention in Kyiv informed the German government that a so-called CNC machine manufactured by Spinner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH is en route to a plant in Russia from Turkey, according to letters seen by Bloomberg News and people familiar with the matter. The equipment is due to arrive later this month. The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has added two leading German manufacturers of high-precision machine tools, SPINNER and DMG MORI, to the list of international sponsors of war. State prosecutors and customs investigators from Munich have searched the premises of a machine tool manufacturer near Munich. They suspect that more than 20 high-precision machine tools with a sales price of around 5.5 million euros were deliberately shipped to Russia in “deliberate circumvention of the sanctions rules imposed against Russia,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The company in question is Spinner from Sauerlach. The prosecutor’s office points to a report by the television station Arte from the end of April this year, which traces the export of the Spinner machine in detail. The report states that the machine was sold to a defense company in Russia via third countries, partly using forged documents, despite the current European sanctions rules. The machines can process all kinds of materials, such as metals. They are used in the automotive industry as well as by manufacturers of weapons and ammunition.

The German company Vansped Logistics (on behalf of Reißaus & Baumberg Maschinenbau GmbH) has already supplied Stan LLC with technical equipment for foundries after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to the ImportGenius database, deliveries were made in July 2022.