Therefore, Rosoboronexport is involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine.
Rosoboronexport is Russia’s only official state intermediary for the export and import of military and dual-use products, technologies and services. Rosoboronexport is a subsidiary company of Rostec, a state owned corporation that oversees the research and development of military technologies, and owns several production facilities which play an instrumental role in the deployment of those technologies into operation on the battlefield. Arms sales provide an important source of hard currency to the Russian government. They are also used to advance Russia’s economic and strategic objectives. From 2000 to 2020 Rosoboronexport sold USD 180 billion worth of arms to foreign customers.