Ukraine continues to provide Russia with components for servicing military aviation

In 2022–2023, the Russian company Avia FED Service spent at least 370 million rubles on importing parts for airplanes and helicopters.

, the Russian company Avia FED Service supplied the Russian aircraft industry with spare parts worth at least 650 million rubles (2022–July 2023). Most of them, 370 million, came from Ukraine. In particular, according to customs data, the company imported parts for the repair of An-124 aircraft produced by the Kharkov machine-building plant FED for almost 120 million rubles, spare parts for location stations for Ka-32 helicopters produced by the Kiev Radar for more than 67 million, parts for repair An-24 and An-12 engines produced by Motor Sich (in Soviet times, the Zaporozhye production association Motorostroitel), products of the Kiev plant Artem , Kharkov Aggregate Design Bureau , Volchansky Aggregate Plant and other Ukrainian enterprises for approximately 170 million. There were also deliveries from France, the USA and the UK.

After the outbreak of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the main supplier of Avia FED Service, the Kharkov FED plant (the name comes from the founder of the Cheka, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky), officially stopped all deliveries to Russia. This was a serious blow for the company - Russia accounted for about 70% of sales.

The Russian company Avia FED Service was founded in 1993 as a representative office of KhMZ FED and, as wrote , was affiliated with the top management of the plant. The current director of the company, Alexander Reshetnik, was born in Lugansk, studied at the Kharkov Aviation Institute, and on his personal website there is a section with photographs of FED employees.

Clients of Avia FED Service, according to government procurement data, are the Russian Ministry of Defense, enterprises of the Rostec state corporation and the presidential special flight squad "Russia".

Even before the war, in 2018, Avia FED Service fell under Ukrainian sanctions. Therefore, in 2022–2023, supplies were not made directly to her, but through the Linker . The company has a website in several languages, including Russian; it says that it specializes in the supply of aircraft parts for Mi-8, Mi-17, Ka-32 helicopters “anywhere in the world.” On the LinkedIn website you can find the profile of the company’s manager - his name is Andrey Kurta. Kurta's VKontakte profile states that he was born in Chernigov and graduated from Nizhyn State University named after Nikolai Gogol.

The owner of Linker on LinkedIn is Alexey Palchik. As “Important Stories” found out, this person could be a native of Poltava, a graduate of the Irkutsk Higher Military Aviation School, Alexey Palchik.

Linker received Ukrainian products, in particular, from Motor Sich, whose director Vyacheslav Boguslaev was detained on suspicion of treason for “illegal supplies of military goods for Russian attack aircraft.” The website of Linker's sister company Amis says that the company is the official representative of Motor Sich in the UAE and “has all the necessary permits and licenses.”

The last delivery of Linker to Avia FED Service was made, according to customs data at our disposal, in January of this year. After this, supplies were carried out through the Bakaitorg1 company from Kyrgyzstan, which was registered in April 2023. She has already managed to sell KMZ FED products to Avia FED Service for almost 40 million rubles. The director and owner of Bakaitorg1 is Bakai Saadaev. He graduated from the Kyrgyz State Law Academy, and in July 2020 he tried to get a job at the state traffic inspectorate, at that time working as a courier in the Pizza Empire restaurant chain.

“Important Stories” contacted Linker owner Finger. He said that he is not involved in deliveries to Russia: “You don’t need to ask me questions... The Linker company from Ukraine has never supplied anything to Russia and does not supply anything.” When asked for clarification whether Linker supplied goods to the Avia FED Service company, Palchik said that he was “not ready” to answer.

Director of Avia-Fed-Service Alexander Reshetnik told Important Stories that the products of Ukrainian factories, which arrived at the company in 2022-2023, were purchased by his company earlier, in 2020-2021, and were simply “lying abroad " When asked how this is possible in the case of deliveries through Bakaitorg1, which was registered only a few months ago, he did not answer.