Trap Aggressor sends to THEPHILBIZNEWS the new list that includes identities 17 individuals and 58 legal entities, as well as 189 vessels involved in the transportation of oil, weapons or stolen Ukrainian grain. Among the figures are 15 companies and individuals who appeared in their investigations and analytical reports.

Sergey Kogogin, Director of KAMAZ

Kogogin is the General Director of PJSC KAMAZ, a Russian developer and manufacturer of automobiles and military equipment. It produces the KAMAZ-5350, KAMAZ-6350 and KAMAZ-6560 vehicles used by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the war against Ukraine. During a full-scale war, PJSC KAMAZ is working at the limit of its capacity to fulfil all orders for weapons. In April 2022, the company also published a video using the symbol “Z”, expressing support for the war in Ukraine.

Mile Hao Xiang Technology Co., Ltd is a Chinese donor of drones for the Russian Federation

A Chinese company that provides the Russian military and defence industry with components for military drones, including for use in Ukraine. It is also involved in developing, producing and supplying military technologies and equipment.

Dmitry Kuzyakin and his Center for Complex Unmanned Solutions

Kuzyakin’s company Center for Complex Unmanned Solutions specializes in the production and combat use of FPV drones. Among the most famous are Joker-10 and Ultimatum. The centre also trains operators for these devices.

Konstantin Nikolaev – a war sponsor hiding behind his wife

Nikolaev is a Russian businessman with business interests in the Russian military-industrial complex. In particular, he owns shares in the Russian companies Promtekhnologiya, ScanEx, and Tula Cartridge Plant. These companies cooperate with the Russian military and intelligence services, supplying them with military equipment that was used in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Nikolaev hides his ownership and interest in these companies, including by appointing his wife Svetlana Nikolaeva to visible management positions. Moreover, through his companies, he has financed groups of Russian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine.

Turbo King and NPO Rostar

Turbo King and NPO Rostar import various products for PJSC KAMAZ. This is stated in the description of most import declarations. These two companies, according to trade databases, purchase spare parts and raw materials of European production from the Austrian PowerLine Automotive GmbH. In 2023 alone, the Austrians supplied goods worth over $2.5 million to Turbo King and almost $250,000 to NPO Rostar.

Ryazan Radio Plant – a silent link in Russian communications

It is a manufacturer of radio communications equipment used by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and a manufacturer of systems that provide encrypted communications for military units. The plant also produces equipment for civilian and emergency use aimed at increasing military communications capabilities. The company cooperates with the Russian Ministry of Defense and other law enforcement agencies and also fulfils state defence orders.

ANO NPC Ushkuynik: drones for war

It is a developer of electronic warfare equipment, unmanned aerial vehicles and other means of airspace control. The centre has been accredited by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and is engaged in the production of innovative drones. It produces the Prince Vandal Novgorodsky and the Osoed interceptor drone.

Design Bureau Microb: FPV for the Russian Army

It is a Russian enterprise that produces FPV unmanned aerial vehicles for the Russian Army. In 2024, the company announced plans to supply 3,000 UAVs equipped with an autopilot with artificial intelligence. In August 2024, the Microb-10 UAV was successfully used by operators of the 35th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 41st Army against a Ukrainian tank.

Scientific and Production Association Rustekhdron

It is one of the main developers and manufacturers of unmanned aircraft systems in Russia which supplies products to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), namely the RTD-4M and the Inferno UAVs, are used by the Russian army in the war against Ukraine.

Avbis and European machine tools for the Russian military

The company is engaged in wholesale trade in electrical goods and imports equipment used by the Russian military-industrial complex from abroad. Avbis imported German Spinner machine tools to Russia to implement a program to increase the production of high-explosive fragmentation shells for Russian tanks.

Volzhskoye Parokhodstvo Shipping Company – Oil Circumventing Sanctions

It is one of the leading Russian shipping companies. Its vessels transport crude oil and petroleum products by sea, in particular for export. The energy sector, especially the oil and gas industry, provides the main income of the Russian government.

Stratim – FPV drones of the new generation

The company is engaged in the development of FPV and aircraft-type UAVs that do not require firmware, operate on non-commercial frequencies, and also use a repeater to increase the control range and video channels.

JSC Soedinitel – the cable artery of war

The enterprise develops and produces connectors, as well as special cable assemblies designed to work in aggressive and corrosive environments, which can be subjected to high pressure and significant temperature drops.

Trap Aggressor previously told how Russia is also building raw material autonomy for war in the investigation.

By Zbigniew Rau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland

Since February 24, 2022, when the Russian Federation started its unjustified and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we have been witnessing appalling scenes of harm, pain, and suffering inflicted on hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians for days on end. The tragic lot of millions of civilian refugees, mostly women and children, and the enormity of damage and destruction caused by the war bring to mind the darkest periods in the contemporary history of Europe and the world. 

The Russian aggression has created infinite havoc. Fully premeditated acts of war target non-military objects, including sites of Ukraine’s cultural heritage and religious worship. The burning buildings of the Holy Mountains Lavra (Sviatohirsk Lavra) in Donetsk Oblast in the east of the country are among the symbols of this barbarity. The Lavra is a vitally important place of worship in Orthodox Christianity. Its earliest mentions date back to the 17th century. With the onset of the Russian invasion, the Lavra became a shelter for civilians, including pilgrims and members of the clergy, older persons, persons with disabilities, and children. This did not prevent Russian troops from brutally shelling the monastic complex. The attack wreaked damage on a number of its buildings. The Skete of All Saints, Ukraine’s largest wooden church, built in the early 20th century, was burnt to the ground.

The Holy Mountains Lavra (Sviatohirsk Lavra) is just one of numerous distressing illustrations of the Russians’  pursuit to destroy Ukraine’s places of religious worship. However, attacks have been also mounted not only on Orthodox churches in Mariupol and near Kyiv, but also on the Islamic cultural centre in Sievierodonetsk. Cemeteries and remembrance sites have shared the same fate. Among the destroyed and desecrated ones are World War II’s burial grounds and memorials. Ukrainians of all creeds and ethnic origins are faced with brutal annihilation of places commemorating their identity, including belief-related. 

We must bear in mind that the Russian repression against persons belonging to religious minorities in Ukraine had begun long before the ongoing invasion. Since the Russian Federation illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, particularly harsh discrimination based on religion or belief has been brought down on the peninsula’s native Crimean Tatars. Their rights and freedoms have since been systematically violated by the occupying Russian authorities. There have been cases of people being taken into custody, deprived of the right to a fair trial, and imprisoned for political reasons or alleged extremism or terrorism based on their membership of the ethnic and religious community of the Tatars. Tatar organisations, such as their representative assembly, the Mejlis, have been outlawed and their members repressed. Persecution and harassment have been extended to representatives of other religious minorities in occupied Crimea, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses and Protestants.

Religious persecution has been ongoing in different regions of the world where conflicts are fuelled by religious fundamentalism and ethnic hatred. Openly violent acts are commonplace; in Owo in south-west Nigeria, some 40 people were killed in a bloody assault on St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church on Pentecost Sunday earlier this year, on 5 June. Systemic persecution of religious groups is another issue, as exemplified by the situation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan or violence against the Yazidis displayed by Islamic terrorists in Iraq. 

Freedom of religion or belief is a fundamental human right. At its core lies the freedom to practise the religion of one’s choice, to change one’s denomination, or to follow no religion at all, as well as the right to manifest one’s religious beliefs. This human right is both universal and inalienable; everyone is entitled to it and no-one can be forced to adopt or reject certain religious beliefs. No person should be discriminated against due to what they believe in. 

Promotingfreedom of religion or belief is an important objective of Poland’s foreign policy on human rights. It was on Poland’s initiative that the UN General Assembly resolved in 2019 to designate 22 August as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. 

To implement this initiative, Poland has partnered with countries that have made it one of their priorities to speak up for freedom of religion or belief. The United Kingdom has been among our closest collaborators in this regard. Along with the United States, our two countries have hosted annual global international conferences on freedom of religion or belief; launched in 2019, the events have gathered representatives of governments, civil society, and leaders of various faiths. 

These issues are particularly sensitive to us Poles. We remember World War II and what happened on our soil at that time. We want the world to learn from its mistakes; we want to prevent such tragedies from happening again. I believe that our shared effort, both local and international, will get us to that goal, so that we never again have to look at images similar to those of the Holy Mountains Lavra (Sviatohirsk Lavra) on fire.