Ukraine is calling on its partners to impose sanctions against Belarusian defense industry enterprises that help Russia fulfill its state defense order and thus kill Ukrainians.
Viktoriia Kuvshynnykova, Ukraine’s Acting Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, stated this at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.
“But to produce both drones and ballistic missiles, Russia needs numerous critical components, manufactured in foreign countries, without which the Russian terror would be impossible. To attack Ukraine with, for example, a three dozen of such drones, Russia needs around three thousand components from other countries. Since Autumn 2024 these were not isolated cases when Russia used more than one hundred of such drones during one single day,” she said.
Kuvshynnykova noted that this speaks volumes about “Russian ongoing ability to bypass restrictions and about the scope of its cooperation with the other authoritarian regimes”.
“The bare fact that Russia is still capable of getting all necessary dual-use materials and specific components for its military industrial complex serves as a clear message: more sanctions should be imposed not only against Russia and its economy and military-industrial complex, but also against those countries which help Russia to implement its state defense order and bypass restrictions. Belarus is among such countries,” the Ukrainian diplomat noted.
Against this background, she pointed to the recently published investigation by the Poland-based Belarussian NGO “BelPol” that revealed shocking facts about “massive production of hundreds of thousands of components for the artillery shells by the Belarussian industrial enterprises.” Moreover, the previous investigation by the mentioned NGO touches upon optical-mechanical units and sights for the different types of weapons, armoured vehicles and tanks.
“Selling the military goods to Russia, the Belarussian regime enjoys additional bloody revenues. At the same time, Russia uses them to kill more and more Ukrainians. Meanwhile, the mentioned Belarusian enterprises, being directly involved in implementation of the Russian defense order for years already, mainly are not subject to systemic international restrictions. We would like to especially highlight this fact nearly month before the sad anniversary of the Russian full-scale war against Ukraine and the next, 16th package of the EU sanctions, which is expected to be agreed very soon,” Kuvshynnykova stated.
As reported by Ukrinform, the leaders in assisting the Russian Federation are such countries as Iran, Belarus, and North Korea. In addition, some post-Soviet countries facilitate the import of high-tech components to the Russian territory for the production of modern weapons and military equipment.
Source: Ukraine at OSCE calls for sanctions against defense industry enterprises in Belarus
