Can be used for missiles: Ukraine supplies titanium raw materials to Russia - media (photo)
Journalists report that during the Russo-Ukrainian War from July last year to April 2023, a combined mining-chemical company owned by the state sent 82. 2 thousand tons of ores containing Titan. According to the sources of the publication, much of these products got to the Russian Federation. In particular, intermediary companies from Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, whose founders are Russian citizens working with Russia.
According to the newspaper, the Ukrainian company in July, August and September 2022 put thousands of tons of concentrate of the Hungarian company Sic Luceat Lux Kft. Its founders are natives of Crimea Alexander and Svetlana Muradian. Journalists suggest that these can be false persons. The main counterparties of this company and consignees in 2021-2022 were the Moscow LLC "Redmethancelist", as well as the Belgorod LLC "Non-Hudna Company" and LLC "Minko Rus" (Belgorod).
Journalists also write that in the summer and fall of 2022, the titanium concentrate from Ukraine was supplied by the Polish company Bioproftech Sp. zoo, registered in Warsaw. Its founder Ruslan Akopian, registered in the occupied Khartsiz Donetsk region. The man has Russian citizenship. Another enterprise "Zaporizhzhya Titano-Magnesium Combine" owned by oligarch Dmitry Firtash until 2021, in 2022 sold about two thousand tons of products stored in warehouses, totaling UAH 276. 6 million.
Among the buyers were companies from Montenegro, Austria, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, which are related to Russia and have Russian founders. In the media, it is believed that the end consumer of titanium products can be military plants of the Russian Federation. Yes, journalists point out that the "UKMPO-AVISMA Corporation" historically needed Ukrainian raw materials. The company is the world's largest titanium manufacturer.