a range of western and other countries including the uk these are commercial and industrial components which are not subject to export controls and which are available from suppliers around the worldthe uk department of international trade is now working internally to understand russian procurement networks with a view to working with partners to develop further sanctions against russia which would make this procurement more difficultit comes just after uk pm boris johnson visited india to announce a new and expanded defence partnership between the two countries including the uk sharing new technology with indiaaccording to the authors in midmarch the russian presidential administration established an interdepartmental committee overseen by deputy russian defence minister aleksei krivoruchko to survey russian defence equipment to establish what could be produced domestically what could be sourced from friendly countries as well as the development of covert means to obtain critical componentsrussia is prepared to use blackmail to keep these channels open for example many of the computer components in russian cruise and ballistic missiles are purchased ostensibly for civilian use in russias space programme moreover there are myriad companies based around the world including in the czech republic serbia armenia kazakhstan turkey india and china who will take considerable risks to meet russian supply requirements constraining these supply routes without alienating the governments in these states will be a delicate policy needle to thread it likely requires a systematic targeting of russias special services tasked with orchestrating these supply chain operations the report addsfollow russiaukraine war live updates herea uk government spokesperson said we take all credible allegations of breaches of export control seriously and we will take further action if appropriate