The Ukrainian plant supplied more than 20 thousand satellite systems to the Russian Federation in a year (VIDEO)

Gilat SkyEdge satellite communication systems produced in Ukraine are being massively imported to Russia, where they can be used in war, reported the Ukrainian portal Slidstvo.Info.

Gilat SkyEdge are satellite systems that are produced for the Israeli corporation Gilat Satellite Networks in Uzhgorod by the plant of the American outsourcing company Jabil Circuit.

It is noted that in 2023, regarding 22,000 Gilat SkyEdge systems worth regarding $5 million were imported into the Russian Federation. According to journalists, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, evidence of the transfer of such Gilat systems to the Russian army to the front has regularly appeared in the media.

“Gilat satellite communication systems are sold en masse by dealers throughout Russia, and the notes to the advertisement often indicate that they are “suitable for the needs of the so-called “SVO”,” the investigation says.

After the start of a full-scale war, Gilat did not close its business in Russia and continues to import equipment through its subsidiary Gilat Satellite Networks (Eurasia) LLC.

Since the early 2000s, Gilat Satellite Networks has been helping Russians develop a satellite communications network for both private needs and the public sector. Gilat is also a partner of the largest satellite communications operators – a subsidiary of Rostelecom RTCOMM, as well as a subsidiary of Gazprom – Gazprom Space Systems LLC. One of the company’s activities is the development of military communications technologies,” the journalists note.

Rostelecom bought Gilat systems in March of this year. They are also supplied to the structures of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the investigation says.

Experts say that it is difficult to impose sanctions on a business like Gilat, because this requires “very clear evidence not just of the use of their products by the military, but of use in the war once morest Ukraine.”