Sam Koppelman

Nina sent us thank you letters thanking her for providing equipment to troops fighting in Ukraine.

And it's a letter specifically from Russia's 623rd Interspecific Regional Training Center.

It's addressed to Nina, thanking her for providing, quote, wireless bridges for Russian servicemen in Ukraine, which is exactly what Ubiquiti sells.

And there's another one.

This is a letter from a Russian company called Valtech.

confirming that the radio bridges Nina transferred to them were, quote, sent to the combat zone, and were, quote, ensuring reliable communications in critical situations.

Yeah, we, like, wanted to make triple, quadruple, quintuple sure that Ubiquiti was really selling these devices, so Nina wasn't the only vendor we contacted.

We actually reached out to a dozen Russian e-commerce sites.

Many had Ubiquity right in the domain name, ubnt.ru, ubiquity-russia.com, ru-ubiquity.ru.

We gave each one the same proposition.

A Russian military unit needs prohibited Ubiquity equipment for operations in occupied Ukrainian territories.

Almost all of them confirmed our shopping list and promised delivery to the war zone in as little as a week.

Yeah, I will note that one vendor actually set a condition.

They said, we will only do it if you give us an order of over $100,000.

It's funny because this is a direct translation.

They said, quote, you're asking for sanctioned equipment.

We carry orders starting at $100,000.

Our team at Hunterbrook reached out to Robert Pera's company with detailed questions, and they didn't respond.

Look, we have a relatively small newsroom, small but mighty, but we figured this out with a team of a few incredible reporters.

You'd think that a 35 or so billion dollar company could trace its own devices if they wanted to figure out where they were going.