American, British, Swiss, Canadian and Belgian companies are helping russian missiles kill Ukrainian civiliansaccording to Ukraine.

“Russian missiles do not hit their targets without clear coordinates,” says the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “[Estas coordenadas] are determined by the navigation systems”.

GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of GPS. Supposedly, Russia it uses this system to guide its missiles towards civilian infrastructures.

The Intelligence Directorate says that missiles using GLONASS”[dependen] of microchips produced by foreign companies” in order to operate.

On its official website, the Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense published a list of 13 companies that produce these microchips.

The list includes US companies Linx Technologies, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Telit, Maxim Integrated, TRIMBLE and Cavli Wireless. It also includes Swiss companies u-blox AG and STMicroelectronics, as well as Canadian companies Sierra Wireless and NovAtel. Finally, it includes the Belgian company Septentrio and the British company Antenova.

So far, these companies have not publicly commented on the Ukrainian claims.

Missiles are one of the main weapons Russia has used against Ukrainian forces since the conflict began in February.. As Russian forces withdraw from positions and towns they previously occupied, continuing to strike at Ukrainians remains one of their most viable options.

According to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, Russia fired hundreds of missiles this month alone, including some that “hit three high-rise buildings, killing 10 people.”

Also ukrainian army He said a barrage of missiles was fired at the liberated city of Kherson last Thursday, killing four people and injuring at least 10 others.

The Russians also used missiles to attack energy infrastructure, causing massive blackouts across the country. Vital services such as hospitals have had to rely on generators to continue treating injured soldiers and civilians.

Moreover, as winter progresses and temperatures drop in Ukraine, Russian missiles targeting Ukraine’s power grid could prove just as difficult as those directly targeting civilians.

In a televised statement earlier this month, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky he described Russia’s continued attacks on Ukraine as a last-ditch effort of an ultimately powerless invasion.

“It is the revenge of those who have lost. They do not know how to fight. The only thing they can still do is terrify. Or energy terror, or artillery terror, or terror missiles. That’s all Russia has ever stooped to under its current rulers.”

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate says the only way to prevent Russia, at least for now, from getting GLONASS-compatible microchips is for foreign companies to stop producing them altogether.

Affirm that “export control and control by manufacturers will not work, because Russia is constantly inventing new ways to circumvent sanctions and buy technology”.

Ukraine’s Defense Directorate calls on the companies that allegedly produce the chip to “realize the direct impact of their products on Russia’s defense capabilities, to stop producing GLONASS-compatible chips and to remove the support function of this navigation system of all your devices”.