Despite bans put in place by the U.S. and Europe on the supply of electronic components to Russia, dozens of Russian microelectronics suppliers continue to obtain and resell imported chips to Russian arms manufacturers successfully. Without these Western chips, Russia would not be able to produce key weapons — like missiles, drones, and self-propelled howitzers. To prove that this line of supply continues to operate three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Kyiv Independent tried orde