{"id":166897,"date":"2025-12-04T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/166897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"homiel-based-zavod-santeks-supplied-309-chinese-made-drones-to-russia-in-2022-23-bic","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/166897\/","title":{"rendered":"Homiel-based Zavod Santeks supplied 309 Chinese-made drones to Russia in 2022-23\u2014BIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 4,<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;The Homiel-based Zavod Santeks company supplied 309 Chinese-made Mavic copters, known as DJI, worth $2 million to Russia in 2022 and 2023, reported the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 2022, China\u2019s Sz DJI Technology CO., LTD stopped selling its drones to Russia and took the item down from the Russian segment of AliExpress in March 2023. However, Russian stores continued to buy the copters through Zavod Santeks, the BIC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belarusian company supplied drones to Russia\u2019s OOO Santross and OOO Rustakt. All three businesses are controlled by Pavie\u0142 Nikicin, a Minsk-born businessman who renounced Belarusian citizenship in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OOO Rustakt is under European Union and Switzerland sanctions. Ukraine has designated it as a co-aggressor that supplies PVKh-1 kamikaze drones to the Russian military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from drones, Zavod Santeks supplies Rustakt with some vaguely described equipment, the BIC said, noting that a source has shared documents confirming 135 related payments totaling more than $152 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BIC said that 14 Belarusian companies have sold more than 20,000 drones worth $34 million to Russia from 2022 to 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/155540\/\">Belarus companies sell 20,000 drones to Russia for $34 million \u2013 BIC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 4,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;The Homiel-based Zavod Santeks company supplied 309 Chinese-made Mavic copters, known as DJI, worth $2 million to Russia in 2022 and 2023, reported the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC). In April 2022, China\u2019s Sz DJI Technology CO., LTD stopped selling its drones to Russia and took the item down from the Russian segment of AliExpress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":166896,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-166897","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>Homiel-based Zavod Santeks supplied 309 Chinese-made drones to Russia in 2022-23\u2014BIC | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 4,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;The Homiel-based Zavod Santeks company supplied 309 Chinese-made Mavic copters, known as DJI, worth $2 million to Russia in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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