Open Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)

Russia’s sourcing of equipment, like the UAV drones from Iran, “underscores the challenges” the country is having “replacing equipment lost or expended since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” according to RUSI researchers.

We see that one of the countries used by the Russians to circumvent sanctions is Turkey. We have documented products going through Turkey to Russia. Hong Kong, China, Azerbaijan and other countries are also involved. This is how sanctions circumvention works,” James Byrne, head of Open Source Intelligence and Analysis at the British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told LRT.

“This is the most detailed evidence ever put into the public domain to show how North Korea uses people with high-level connections to criminal networks like the triads to evade sanctions and finance their weapons programmes,” says James Byrne, director of the open-source intelligence and analysis research group at RUSI. “These networks are central to North Korea’s ability to continue to function and threaten the world with nuclear war.”