Ukraine still supplies Russia spare parts for aviation - investigation

The publication notes that from 2022 to July 2023 the aircraft industry of Russia received Ukrainian details for 370 million rubles. Referring to the customs data, journalists note that the parts were imported into almost 120 million rubles produced by the Kharkiv Machine-Building Plant "Fed", for repair An-124. More than 67 million rubles have been put up parts for the Ka-32 location stations, which was produced by the Radar Kiev plant.

In addition, the Aviation of the Russian Federation received spare parts from Motor Sich, Artem, Kharkiv Aggregate Design Bureau, Vovchansky Aggregate Plant and other Ukrainian enterprises about 170 million journalists say that parts were also supplied from France, USA and Great Britain. .

The investigation emphasizes that before the war in eastern Ukraine, about 70% of the sales of the Kharkiv Federation plant went to Russia, but after the war, the company officially stopped sales in the Russian Federation, because in 2018 the Russian "Aviation Fed Service" came under Ukrainian sanctions. The publication says that during the past and this year the details were supplied through Linker, which is registered in the UAE.

In particular, the company's website states that they can deliver parts for Mi-8, Mi-17, Ka-32 to any country. Referring to LinkedIn data, journalists indicate that the owner of the company is Alexei Palchik. He was probably born in Poltava and graduated from the Irkutsk Higher Military Aviation School. It is reported that the said company received goods from the Ukrainian Motor Sich, whose director is suspected of supplying goods for Russian aviation.

The site also states that they are the official representative of Motor Sich in the United Arab Emirates. According to journalists, the company was last supplied to the Russian Aviation Fed Service in January 2023. The goods were then supplied through the Kyrgyz company Bakaytorg1. Asked by journalists, the owner Linker said that the company did not supply any goods from Ukraine. He was also unable to say whether they would cooperate with Aviation Fed Service.