Most Russian military and industrial complex (MIC) company directors have not yet been hit with sanctions. Trap Aggressor has collected information about these enterprises’ ownership and management structure. As of the middle of...
What allows Russia’s military-industrial complex (MIC) to continually manufacture and repair military equipment, which then devastates Ukrainian cities? Foreign companies play a major role by supplying Russia with hardware and...
The company is best recognized around the world for producing Kalibr cruise missiles. It is a manufacturer of anti-aircraft, anti-missile defense, and anti-aircraft missile systems. The enterprise also includes more than 60 military...
Development of the military-industrial complex has been a high priority for Russia ever since the Soviet times. Russia has never stopped producing modern tanks, military trucks and artillery systems. However, the current weapons systems...
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CAR tracks the supply of weapons and ammunition into conflict-affected areas. Previously, CAR investigated the sources of military supplies into Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Mali, Central African Republic. Since 2018, CAR field investigation...
In late February, TASS reported that Russian designers have come up with “a new class of ship.” The vessel, nicknamed the Varan, will function as an aircraft carrier as well as perform other duties, be small enough to not...
Russian-Ukrainian relations, increasingly tense since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, plummeted to a new low after Russia’s forcible absorption of the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and subsequent invasion of Donbas. On...
Now that Vladimir Putin has signaled that he wants Russia to have a new aircraft carrier, officials are working hard to realize that project. But their efforts highlight Moscow’s problems: the new one will be a copy of earlier...
Today, Russians are not even hiding Russia’s participation in the war in Eastern Ukraine. In a recent interview, battalion commander of the Prizrak Brigade (“LNR”), Aleksei Markov (a Russian citizen from Moscow)...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...