Russian Nuclear Corporation Helping Defense Industry Evade Sanctions, Report Says
Rosatom, a Russian state nuclear corporation, has worked to supply Russia’s defense industry with controlled components, technology and raw material for missile fuel, The Washington Post reported Jan. 20. The company has offered to provide goods to the Russian military…
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and Russian weapons manufacturers that are subject to sanctions, the report said, including Almaz-Antey, a missile systems producer, and NPK Tekhmash, a manufacturer of unguided bombs and multiple missile launch systems. Although Rosatom has “long presented itself as a civilian entity operating nuclear power plants in commercial partnerships across the globe,” Russia’s war in Ukraine is “exposing how closely the company” is “intertwined” with Russia’s military-industrial complex, the report said. Rosatom told the paper all of its claims “are completely untrue.”