From the end of 2022 to the end of 2024, NLMK supplied electrical steel to 22 enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex for a total amount of at least 120 million rubles. In particular:

• for the production of missiles for JSC Strela, JSC Typhoon, and JSC MMZ Avanagard;
• for the production of drones – KEMZ concern, Elektropribor plant, JSC Izumrud;
• combat aircraft – JSC UAPO, JSC ONDIP;
• SAM – Pravdinsky Radio Plant, Izhevsk Kupol, Lipetsk Mechanical Plant;

Steel was also supplied to enterprises related to nuclear weapons. For example, to the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Zababakhin, Siberian Chemical Plant;

Journalists noted that almost all of these enterprises are under EU sanctions. However, Lisin, being the second richest person in Russia, is still not on the sanctions lists.

Thus, he continues to work in the EU, sells metal to European countries, and pays taxes to the Kremlin from the profits received. Moreover, about 60% of all Russian metal imported to the EU over the past three years belongs to Lisin’s companies. Besides, the mining and metallurgical complex itself is the third main source of income for the Russian economy, after oil and gas. According to Eurostat, in just three years of full-scale invasion, Russia sold almost 10 billion euros worth of MMC products to EU countries.

Trap Aggressor previously wrote about how Russia is building raw material autonomy for war.