Russia bypasses the sanctions of the European Union and the G7 countries and continues to receive chips and microcircuits necessary for the war in Ukraine. Bloomberg writes about this, citing a high-ranking European official.
According to him, semiconductors produced in the EU and allied countries are supplied to Russia through third countries. A Bloomberg source claims that these are Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan. He also stressed that supplies from China to Russia have increased. Recently, this has been reported by US and European officials, as well as the media. China itself denies helping the Kremlin.
Bloomberg cites statistics from the Geneva-based Trade Data Monitor showing how the export of technology that could be used in war to Russia has increased. In some cases, shipments have increased from lows in 2021 to millions of dollars in 2022. The most striking example is Kazakhstan. In 2021, he exported $12,000 worth of semiconductors to Russia, and in 2022 this amount increased to $3.7 million.
In the EU countries, the US, Japan and the UK, which have imposed sanctions against Russia, the amount of supplies has fallen several times. If in the period from 2017 to 2021 Russia annually bought circuits and microcircuits from them for an average of $163, then in 2022 this amount decreased to $60 million. Bloomberg emphasizes that Turkey, Serbia, the United Arab Emirates and several other countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia helped Russia fill this gap. Deliveries of high-tech components to these countries from allied countries increased by a similar amount.