The Ukraine Economic Security Council (ESCU) has carried out a Research on the origin of CNC machines (computerized numerical control) that has imported between 2023 and the first seven months of 2024.
CNC machines They are indispensable to manufacture virtually any weaponso without them the country chaired by Vladimir Putin could not continue the war that since February 24, 2022 Libra in.
In that sense, the ESCU points out that before the Russian military invasion of Ukrainian territory began, Russia depended on imports for between 70% and 90% of its CNC machines.
The result of the ESCU study has been that Russia has managed to buy more than 22,000 CNC machines, components and consumables worth 18,200 million dollars (some 17,350 million eurosto the current change) in the period cited in previous paragraphs.
According to customs payment data analyzed by the Ukraine Economic Security Security Council, The three main countries that have provided Russia CNC machines have been China (62.86%on the total), Taiwan (8.91%) and South Korea (5.47%).
However, the most surprising thing is that, despite the sanctions, Almost a tenth from Russian imports has come from European manufacturers (A total of more than 10,000 CNC machines worth 386 million euros).
In fact, Among the ten countries of the world that have exported more CNC machines to Russia is Spain:
- China (62,86%)
- Taiwan (8.91%)
- South Korea (5.47%)
- Türkiye (5.28%)
- Italia (4,05%)
- Japan (3.13%)
- India (1,28%)
- España (0.73%)
- Czech Republic (0.54%)
- Switzerland (0.33%)
