Overview
- On Nov. 17, Ukraine’s DIU published OSINT findings on its War&Sanctions portal based on an international hackathon that mapped foreign-made equipment in Russian UMPK kits, missiles and artillery rounds.
- Investigators identified Okuma of Japan and Hision of China machining centres on production lines at Russia’s Tactical Missile Armament corporation for gliding and correction modules.
- JSC Burevestnik was found to use a Performa vertical machining centre from Taiwan’s AKIRA SEIKI to produce stabilizers for mortar rounds.
- After the full-scale invasion began, the Votkinsk Plant received Chinese KEDE and WMT machines and Taiwanese ECOM VL-12i milling centres for its missile production.
- HUR’s list also cites equipment from South Korea’s SMEC and Japan’s Matsuura, along with three Czech firms and a German company, with the data already informing new sanctions initiatives.