Based on an analysis of Telegram posts and materials from open sources, HunterBook journalists identified at least nine Russian military units accused of war crimes, or individuals linked to these units, who are using Ubiquiti equipment.
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A reporter posing as an officer responsible for military procurement contacted Russian suppliers and several official Ubiquiti distributors in various countries worldwide.
Nearly a dozen sellers agreed to sell the banned export equipment. One supplier even provided letters of appreciation, which, according to him, were received for supplying Ubiquiti equipment to the Russian military.
edit what is the big gotcha about HunterBooker shorting the company it is writing articles about and doing an investigation into? Of course that should be taken into account, but so should the seriousness of evidence here independent of the grey areas of HunterBooker. If the evidence is substantial, that line of response is tangential to the point.
related links on this developing story I have collected
https://www.truehoop.com/p/thinking-like-robert-pera
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1qptq67/ubiquiti_the_us_tech_enabling_russias_drone_war/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1qp6ot4/investigation_80_of_russian_troops_linkups_on_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1qq9w3i/memphis_owner_allegations_getting_buried/
Aw man. I’m gonna have to stop buying their shit, and stop recommending it to friends :(
Which somewhat sucks, because until learning this, I considered them to be a rather good network infra manufacturers - especially compared to the vast majority of the consumer-grade shit that is on the market these days.
Edit: depending on what I can dig up on whether it was a third party who sold that shit on (which is often how end-running sanctions works), I may rescind that opinion. Evidently there’s a private equity group that massively shorted them, and they’re trying to get smear pieces to sink the stock price? Idk, I need to research it more, but that also absolutely sounds like some bullshit a PE firm would do. GameStop round 2, anyone? 💎 🙌 🤪
Aw man. I’m gonna have to stop buying their shit, and stop recommending it to friends :(
That’s exactly what Hunter Capital wants. It’s why they paid for the research that Hunter Media (the source of this article) did, why they spent more money to get a carefully written hit piece that pushes a narrative, and why they are spending even more money pushing this into the media.
Hunter Capital shorted UIs stock and they NEED the price to drop so they can make money. There’s a much longer article out there but even it is hit piece meant to leave the reader with the impression that Ubiquiti is somehow directly involved in this or doing nothing about it, both of which are false.
Hm. That’s an angle I hadn’t realized or accounted for. And, I suppose, a fair point, so long as it’s absolutely not direct sales - Ubiquiti can’t reasonably control who a third party sells them on to. But I do hope they’re looking into blacklisting any distributors who are essentially operating as a pipeline to Russia.
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To be fair, their hardware is pretty good. It’s not your fault for using that before this reveal.
This isn’t a “reveal”, it’s a hit piece funded by Hunter Capital. They shorted Ubiquiti’s stock and they NEED the share price to go down so they can make money.
This article is based on a hit piece written by Hunter Media which is owned by Hunter Capital…who has shorted UIs stock. They need UIs stock price to go down so they can make money. There’s a much longer article out there with Hunter Media’s research but even that is meant to leave the reader with the impression that UI is up to no good.
Ok, so it’s not necessarily directly ubiquiti but it is their official distributors who either have an official policy from ubiquiti or are all making policy themselves to bypass the export to Russia.
I found this interesting:
As of September 2025, the company likely implemented IP-based firmware update blocking for Russian users.
This is supported by complaints on Russian forums indicating that Ubiquiti can track device locations.
This is part of what makes ubiquiti so “ideal” is that they don’t have a monthly subscription cost and I’m not sure how much power they have to lock down remote devices completely, just the updates. That isn’t a huge loss immediately since most devices are pretty powerful out of the box, but it would be punitive if any security vulnerabilities were found and those updates got blocked.
Experts also note that the company can trace individual devices back to their original distributors using serial numbers and MAC addresses.
This would be the real key to see if ubiquiti is complicit. Do they take action against their official distributors or is this just their policy the official distributors are following?
Either way i hate to see it, but i am eager to see if ubiquiti does anything about it
There is a MUCH more in depth article available and I wrote a comment that addresses most of your points. You can find it here: https://lemmy.today/post/46512183/21904347
One of the MANY things this article isn’t telling you is that the source is Hunter Media, which is owned by Hunter Capital who has shorted Ubiquiti’s stock.
…I’m not sure how much power they have to lock down remote devices completely,
They have zero ability to shut them down and that’s if they can even tell they’re being used. These aren’t the “normal” Ubiquiti products that most people use, they are WISP type equipment meant to be used for long range Point to Point or Multipoint connections. They can easily be run without internet access at all.
Do they take action against their official distributors or is this just their policy the official distributors are following?
Considering more than a few of their global official distributors have been shut down by US authorities I’m confident in saying that they are already taking action. They’ve also taken action to ban updates to Ubiquiti equipment that is in use inside Russia but even that is of limited value when geo-location is impossible or wildly imprecise.
A reporter posing as an officer responsible for military procurement contacted Russian suppliers and several official Ubiquiti distributors in various countries worldwide.
Nearly a dozen sellers agreed to sell the banned export equipment. One supplier even provided letters of appreciation, which, according to him, were received for supplying Ubiquiti equipment to the Russian military.
Official distributors, including the American company Multilink Solutions, agreed to arrange delivery to third countries, such as Turkey, with the possibility of self-pickup – even after the customer explicitly mentioned being located in Russia.
According to trade record analysis conducted by HunterBook, the total value of Ubiquiti shipments crossing into Russia increased by 66% after the full-scale invasion, despite sanctions and export controls imposed by the U.S. and the EU.
So that explains why it’s so hard to get their hardware at reasonable prices.
Not unless you are buying Power or Nano beams. The equipment being used by Russian forces is the stuff that WISPs use, not the stuff that most people use at home or even their business.
You also need to know that the source for these allegations is Hunter Media which is owned by Hunter Capital and that Hunter Capital shorted Ubiquiti’s stock…which means they need UIs share price to go down so they can make money.
And there’s the real answer
