Ukrainian intelligence names foreign companies supplying Russia with chips for missiles

This is stated on the Main Intelligence Directorate's website. 

According to the report, Russian missiles do not reach targets without clear coordinates, which are determined by navigation systems. To guide missiles, Russia uses its own development of 1982 called GLONASS. This is a kind of GPS analogue.

“Although GLONASS is a dual-purpose system, it is mainly used by the Russian military to target Ukrainian cities,” the message says.

At the same time, they noted that GLONASS depends on microchips produced by foreign companies, namely:

• Linx Technologies (USA);
• Broadcom (USA);
• Qualcomm (USA);
• Telit (USA);
• Maxim Integrated (USA);
• TRIMBLE (USA);
• Cavli Wireless (USA);
• U-blox AG (Switzerland);
• STMicroelectronics (Switzerland);
• Sierra Wireless (Canada);
• NovAtel (Canada);
• Septentrio (Belgium);
• Antenova (UK).

Russia purchases these microchips with the help of numerous shell companies.

“Without foreign-made GLONASS-enabled chips, Russians will have to build their own microelectronics from scratch,” the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense emphasized and called on companies to stop producing GLONASS-enabled chips.