Together with UNITED24 Media, StateWatch examined how Russia circumvents sanctions to buy foreign electronics for its missile industry. At the centre of that system sits JSC TRV-Engineering, the main procurement structure of Tactical Missiles Corporation (KTRV).

KTRV is Russia’s leading manufacturer of air-launched precision weapons. The holding brings together some 40 enterprises producing the Kh-101, Kh-22 and Kh-32, Kh-59MK2 and Kh-69 cruise missiles, the Kh-31 anti-radiation and Kh-35 anti-ship missiles, the Oniks and Zircon missiles, as well as guided aerial bombs (FAB) and UMPK modules.

Documents obtained by UNITED24 Media journalists from the private intelligence firm Dallas Analytics show that despite sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries, TRV-Engineering remains the main supplier of microelectronics to the entire corporation — working through more than 50 suppliers inside Russia and over 400 shell companies in China.

Key findings:

• JSC TRV-Engineering (Tax ID 5018205784) runs tenders on behalf of KTRV, supplies the corporation’s enterprises with rolled steel, industrial equipment and imported electronic components, and carries out missile upgrades.
• The company and several of its contractors are linked to the family of KTRV Director Boris Obnosov, in particular his daughter Olga Zorikova.
• Although under sanctions, TRV-Engineering conducts almost no direct foreign procurement — goods come through intermediaries, among them NPP Variant Group LLC, Microlab IC LLC, Integra LLC, TPK-Gorizont LLC and Abtronix LLC. Most of them are still not under sanctions.
• The supplied goods include both Chinese and Western microelectronics, in particular products of the Dutch company Nexperia and the US-based Analog Devices and Texas Instruments.

A cash cow for the family

In 2012, Boris Obnosov ordered all enterprises within the holding to conduct procurement exclusively through a single authorised organisation — Zvezda-Strela Trading House, later renamed TRV-Engineering. According to Russian media reports, a network of intermediary companies placed 20% of the shares under the control of Obnosov’s daughter Olga Zorikova, who was 23 years old when the order was issued.

By 2018, the company was collecting a 12% agency commission on every procurement contract inside the corporation, while also acting as a direct supplier itself. Between 2012 and 2017 its revenue reached 12 billion rubles, of which 6 billion (about $74.26 million) came from direct contracts with KTRV. Since 2022, TRV-Engineering has stopped publishing financial statements, so its profits and ownership structure could not be verified.

The chain of intermediaries

Among the documents obtained is a 2024 contract between TRV-Engineering and NPP Variant Group LLC for the purchase of GNI11AY inertial measurement units worth $5 million. These modules combine an accelerometer and a gyroscope, allowing a missile or drone to hold its course without a GPS signal.

Through its cooperation with Microlab IC LLC, the company obtains Western electronics: Nexperia diodes and transistors and Analog Devices integrated circuits. In total, that company imported $2.1 million worth of microelectronics — mostly integrated circuits made by NXP Semiconductors, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Infineon, TE Connectivity, VPT and Harwin.

Integra LLC plays a similar role, supplying analogue switches to KTRV in 179 shipments worth roughly $1.8 million. Its imports include piezoresistive pressure sensors from Switzerland’s Keller Druckmesstechnik, frequency converters from Japan’s Nisshinbo Micro Devices, measurement electronics from National Instruments, and integrated circuits from Texas Instruments and Qorvo.

Although TRV-Engineering itself has been under sanctions from Ukraine, the EU, Japan and Canada since 2022, and was added to US lists in 2024, this has had almost no effect on its business, because the key links in the chain remain outside the restrictions. NPP Variant Group was listed by the EU, Ukraine and Switzerland only in April 2026, and the United States has still not done so.

The companies named above are only a few of the dozens supplying critical components to Russia’s missile industry. KTRV’s suppliers are known to Ukraine’s partners, yet they continue operating because sanctions are difficult to coordinate and enforce.

Read the full investigation on UNITED24 Media.