Frontline Facilitators: How Secretive UK Partnerships Supply Wartime Russia

cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5264688

The UK has introduced a variety of sanctions aimed at negating Russia’s war efforts. However, experts have long argued that ‘UK Limited Partnerships’ -which are easy to set up and can be used to obscure ownership under the benefit of English common law- have been used as intermediaries for over 17,000 imports into Russia between 24 February 2022 and 31 March 2023.

More than 600 of these shipments concern items flagged by the EU and its partners as “High Priority” battlefield components, potentially dual-use and sanctioned items that could assist Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

3,211 exports into Russia contained items included in the ‘universe of critical components’, a term the pro-Ukrainian International Working Group on Russian Sanctions uses to define components found on the battlefield.

None of the Partnerships have controlling partners or persons of significant control in the UK.