The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has prepared a list of heads of Russian companies that manufacture weapons for the war in Ukraine. These people are still not under sanctions.
What do names like Igor Churbanov, Sergei Pitikov, Alexander Potapov and Farid Abdrakhmanov mean to you? For many of us, nothing. It's too bad, because you need to know your enemies.
Igor Churbanov is the general director of the Votkinsk plant, which manufactures Tochka U missile systems. It uses missiles with warheads weighing 482 kg. Tochka-U can be fired at a range of 70-120 km. It was from this system that the occupiers attacked the railway station in Kramatorsk on 8 April.
Serhiy Pitikov is the General Director of the Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering Corporation, which manufactures the Iskander missile system. The maximum range is about 500 km. These missiles can carry nuclear warheads. The occupiers are constantly using Iskander to fire on the civilian population of Kharkiv.
Aleksandr Potapov is the CEO of the Research and Production Corporation and Uralvagonozavod JSC. Uralvagonozavod produces the Solntsepek multiple rocket launcher system, T-90 and T-14 tanks.
The last person on our list of those not punished is Farid Abdrakhmanov, who is the general director of the Novator design bureau. It is the company that manufactures the notorious ‘calibres’ that kill civilians and destroy infrastructure every day. The missile has a launch range of about 2600 km and weighs 1.5 tonnes.
All of these are horrific weapons, the consequences of which Ukrainians are forced to see and feel every day. Yet those responsible for the production of Russian missiles are still not under sanctions.
Read all about the confiscation of Russian assets and the Ukrainian model in our research.