The United States has imposed sanctions on Ukrainian suppliers of Iranian drones.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on 32 individuals and entities based in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, China, Hong Kong, India, Germany, and Ukraine that supply rocket fuel components and equipment for the production of Iranian ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Two companies from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, GK Imperativ Ukraina LLC and Ekofera LLC, were among those sanctioned.
According to the OFAC, these companies were used by an Iranian procurement agent named Bahram Tabibi to purchase and supply aerospace equipment, including aircraft horizons and magnetometers, to Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA), a state-owned company that manufactures military aircraft and UAVs for Iran’s armed forces.
According to media reports, HESA is linked to the Shahed Aviation Industries Research Center, an Iranian aerospace company. The Shahed Aviation Industry Research Center produces UAVs, copies of which under the name “Geran” are used by Russia to attack the territory of Ukraine.
