Deadly Chips: How a Belarusian State Firm Bypasses Sanctions and Helps Russia Prolong Its War

Deadly Chips: How a Belarusian State Firm Bypasses Sanctions and Helps Russia Prolong Its War

The Belarusian company Integral is producing microchips needed to build rockets using Western equipment, components and raw materials, an investigation has found.

To build its rockets, Russia needs western components. They are entering the country despite sanctions — and also come from Germany. more...

The Belarusian company Integral, which is under Western sanctions, supplied more than six million chips worth more than 130 million euros to Russia in March 2022 — June 2024. Russia uses these chips to create missiles and other weapons that it uses to shell Ukraine: the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine lists the products of the Belarusian plants Integral, Radio Engineering and SKB Zapad in its list of foreign c…

Western Materials Continue to Fuel Belarusian Microchip Production for Russia’s Missile Arsenal

The Belarusian enterprise ‘Integral’ has been manufacturing microchips for Russian missiles while circumventing Western sanctions by using equipment and chemical materials sourced from Europe, uncovered an investigation by the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC) on January 28. The report was conducted in collaboration with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). According to the investigation, Integral’s microchips are us…

The head of the State Security Department (VSD), Darius Jauniškis, stated on Tuesday that intelligence will uncover schemes to circumvent sanctions against Russia in Lithuania, and those involved in them will face punishment and "great shame."

The products of the Belarusian enterprise are used to create missiles and high-precision weapons.