Yuri Kobzar18:21, 13.11.25

The companies are “shells” and are owned by an Iranian citizen.

The US has imposed new sanctions against 32 entities involved in the supply chain for components used to manufacture Shahed-136 suicide drones .

These include two companies from Ukraine. This was announced in a press release by the US Treasury Department, which imposed the sanctions.

It is noted that Iranian citizen Bagram Tabibi “used his Ukrainian shell companies” to “procure and supply aerospace materials” for the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company, the manufacturer of the Shahed missiles. Specifically, this involved the supply of position indicators, magnetometers, alternator components, engines, and other equipment.

The companies themselves are also named: Imperative Ukraine Group LLC and Ecofera LLC.

According to the Opendatabot portal , Imperative Ukraine LLC was registered in 2018 in Kharkiv and is engaged in trade. The company’s owner is Iranian citizen Tabib Jabali Bahram.

There is no publicly available information on Ecofera LLC, although there are companies with very similar names that some media outlets have mistakenly identified as the company targeted by the sanctions.

What you need to know about the manufacturer of “Shaheds”

The developer and manufacturer of the Shahed kamikaze drones is the Iranian company Shahed Aviation Industries, which is associated with the state-owned Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries Corporation.

Since 2022, Iran has been supplying Russia with these drones for strikes against Ukraine. These deliveries were particularly significant in 2022-23, until Russia established domestic production.

A technical analysis of the Shahed drones shot down in Ukraine, both Iranian and later Russian-made, has shown that the most complex components used in the drones (electronics, sensors, controls) are supplied from Europe, North America, and East Asia .

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