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Ukraine Exposes Sanctions Gaps: Over Half of Rostec’s Defense Firms Still Unpunished

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Roman Kohanets
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Ukraine Exposes Sanctions Gaps: Over Half of Rostec’s Defense Firms Still Unpunished
Technodinamika’s production line at a Russian defense facility, part of the Rostec conglomerate. (Photo: Raksha Anirveda)

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has published new data identifying 145 companies belonging to or managed by Technodinamika, a key defense holding within Russia’s state-owned conglomerate Rostec.

According to a statement released on Facebook on October 14, 86 of these companies have not yet been placed under international sanctions.

According to HUR, Technodinamika plays a central role in Russia’s defense industry, producing tube and rocket artillery systems, ammunition, propellants, and military-grade explosives.

Its enterprises also manufacture drones, long-range missile launchers, armor plates, and personal protective equipment, and develop simulators for military aviation, parachute systems, and aircraft engines.

The holding’s facilities are also responsible for maintenance and service life extension of Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic bombers.

Despite this strategic importance, the majority of its enterprises remain unsanctioned. Among the firms highlighted by HUR are:

  • the Federal Center of Dual Technologies “Soyuz” and the Morozov Plant, which develop engines and solid fuel for Russia’s Topol-M, Yars, and Iskander missile systems;

  • The Leningrad Mechanical Plant named after Karl Liebknecht produces armor-piercing sub-caliber rounds for smoothbore tank guns, including those mounted on the Armata platform;

  • The Ufa Aggregate Production Association supplies components for Kh-101 and Kh-59M2/Kh-59M2A cruise missiles;

  • Machine-Building Plant “Shtamp” named after B. L. Vannikov manufactures warheads for Grad and Tornado-G rockets, aircraft bomb casings, and cartridge-belt links for 23mm, 30mm, and 40mm artillery rounds—the only producer of such parts in Russia.

According to HUR, the published data include identification details of each company, its role within Rostec’s structure, organizational links, and information about any sanctions already applied.

“Synchronizing sanctions among partner countries will complicate supply chains, slow the production of weapons, deprive Russia of technological autonomy, and reduce its financial resources for waging war,” the agency stated.

HUR previously disclosed information on 243 enterprises that belong to Rostec’s other major defense holdings—High-Precision Systems, United Aircraft Corporation, and United Engine Corporation—as part of ongoing efforts to expose the networks sustaining Russia’s military-industrial complex.

Earlier, it was reported that more than half of the companies in Russia’s Technodinamika defense cluster, under Rostec, currently evade Western sanctions (86 out of 145 remain unsanctioned by the international coalition).

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