Ukroboronprom refutes fakes about the supply of spare parts for aircraft and helicopters to Russia

Ukroboronprom refutes fakes about the supply of spare parts for aircraft and helicopters to Russia

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Ukroboronprom denies reports of supplying components for airplanes and helicopters to Russia since 2014, clarifying that the Ukrainian companies in question do not have any contracts with the Russian firm or intermediaries. Law enforcement agencies are investigating the allegations.

Ukroboronprom denies the information published by a number of media outlets about the import of "Avia FED Service imports components for airplanes and helicopters manufactured by by some Ukrainian defense companies, according to UNN.

Details

В Ukroboronprom notes that a number of Ukrainian media outlets, citing the Russian-language online publication "Important Stories" (registered in Latvia) reported that from January 2022 to July 2023, the Russian company Avia FED Service imported components for airplanes and helicopters manufactured by some Ukroboronprom enterprises.

THE MEDIA indicated that the products were supplied through LINKER (UAE) and Bakaytorg1 (Kyrgyz Republic).

Ukroboronprom officially informs that the companies mentioned in the notifications are JSC "Company Aviation and Rocketry Construction Company, SE KhMZ FED and JSC Kyiv Radar Plant - have not been working with the said company from Russia since 2014, and have not have not had and do not have contracts with LINKER and Bakaytorg1 

- the company said.

In addition Moreover, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the enterprise, Ukroboronprom has not has not exported the products mentioned in the materials at all.

The materials collected during the relevant inspection were transferred to law enforcement agencies for further investigation.

Supplement

The publication "Vazhnye Istori reported that during the war, the Russian company Avia Fed Service" supplied the Russian Defense Ministry, Rostec and the presidential flight detachment at least 650 million rubles worth of spare parts (2022-July 2023). Most of them, 370 million rubles, came from Ukraine.

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