Russia has quietly expanded its Votkinsk missile plant to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States. Its output has reportedly tripled since 2022, strengthening Russia’s capacity to wage war.

The Kyiv Independent’s investigative journalist Alisa Yurchenko exposes how Russia has quietly expanded its Votkinsk missile plant with the help of Chinese and Taiwanese machinery imported through intermediaries to evade Western sanctions. The plant produces intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, as well as Iskander systems used against Ukraine. Its output has reportedly tripled since 2022, strengthening Russia’s capacity to wage war. The findings reveal how foreign technology and covert supply chains are fueling Moscow’s weapons production despite global restrictions, raising urgent questions about sanctions enforcement and international complicity, and the danger it poses not only to Ukraine but to the world.

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