{"id":155540,"date":"2025-09-15T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/155540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"belarus-companies-sell-20000-drones-to-russia-for-34-million-brc","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/155540\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus companies sell 20,000 drones to Russia for $34 million \u2013 BIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dron_unsplash_744.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dron_unsplash_744.jpg 744w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dron_unsplash_744-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n        Illustration photo        <span>(unsplash.com)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>September 15, <em>Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>From the beginning of 2022 to June 2025, fourteen Belarusian companies supplied more than 20,000 unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia for $34 million, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/investigatebel.org\/en\/investigations\/drones-supplies-russia-belarus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">report<\/a> by the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It noted that the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of quadcopters is the Chinese company DJI, which holds 70 percent of the market. In 2022, DJI suspended its operations in Russia and Ukraine, but it \u201cremains the most popular brand of drones used in the war\u2014by\u00ad both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human Rights Watch reported in the summer that Moscow is using Chinese UAVs in the war. Its experts identified the drones that the Russian military deployed to attack Kherson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 2022, the Belarusian defense ministry became interested in such drones, according to the BIC. The ministry then decided to purchase 56 DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced quadcopters. The Minsk-registered Hobby Park (Hobi-Park) was chosen as the supplier. The contract value exceeded 1.8 million rubels (about $700,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BIC claims that Hobby Park \u201cis the largest supplier of aircraft from Belarus to Russia. Its sales totaled $14.3 million.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat accounts for about half the value of all drones sold by Belarusian companies to Russia from the start of the full-scale war through June 2025. In 2022, the company\u2019s profit jumped nearly 27-fold to $9.7 million,\u201d the investigation reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hens-2632944_1280-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hens-2632944_1280-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hens-2632944_1280-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hens-2632944_1280-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hens-2632944_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hens-2632944_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Economy<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Economy<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Belarusian farms to miss out on millions after China cracks down on chicken feet re-export scheme<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">August 26, Pozirk. 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It noted that the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of quadcopters is the Chinese company DJI, which holds 70 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":57025,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-155540","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus companies sell 20,000 drones to Russia for $34 million \u2013 BIC | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 15, Pozirk. 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