As it follows from the text of Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 364 dated July 1, as part of a new large-scale package of sanctions against 190 individuals and 291 structures, among other things, three illegal “Crimean firms” were included, actively involved in both aiding Russian aggression and trying to bypassing previously imposed sanctions, including direct industrial espionage.
For example, this is the illegal “Electric Machinery Plant “Firma Selma”” from Simferopol, which supplies welding equipment for the aggressor’s oil and gas pipelines and oil storage facilities, for its shipbuilding industry, heavy engineering, bridge facilities and repair of rolling stock of railways.
It is also an illegal “company” “Soyuzko-Crimea” from Simferopol engaged in criminal supplies to the occupied Crimea of “modular and power automation, as well as cable products” from European companies, including “Siemens”.
Let us recall that earlier the ARC repeatedly covered the facts of illegal supplies of “Siemens” products to the peninsula, including industrial pumps for pumping groundwater, which undermined the region’s ecosystems.
Sanctions have also been imposed against the Sevastopol illegal structure “Azzurro Trade”, whose activities in 2022 were repeatedly researched by our Association.
In December, we wrote that the aforementioned “enterprise” with its two dozen “employees”, before the start of large-scale aggression, was engaged in the repair and supply of equipment for yachts and ships, mainly through “gray schemes” to circumvent sanctions.
Previously, the ARC indicated that, prior to the large-scale aggression, shipbuilding and ship repair products, which are critical for the occupiers’ military system, were illegally supplied to the occupied region through “Azzurro Trade”.
These are power plants from “MTU” (Germany), “Yanmar” (Japan) and “Kohler” (USA); additional equipment from “Kanzaki” (Japan), “ZF” (Italy), “Eliche Radice” (Italy), “Dometic” (USA), “Python-Drive” (Netherlands), “Centa” (Germany), and desalination installations from “Spectra” (USA).
