Russian Aerospace Forces

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 4 authorities: OFAC, Switzerland SECO, New Zealand, UK OFSI. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & control— Not scoredNot scored. No ownership, control or officer records are on file for this company, which is an absence of evidence rather than an absence of risk.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• JurisdictionRecords foundRussia is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section IV: “High-risk third countries which are not identified as being subject to calls for action or increased monitoring by the FATF, but whose membership in that international standard-setter is suspended”. The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• New ZealandActive

  Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

  Designated 2 Aug 2022 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

• Switzerland SECOActive

  Situation in Ukraine

  Designated 21 Dec 2022 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

• UK OFSIActive

  Russia

  Designated 10 Sept 2024 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• OFACActive

  IRAN-CON-ARMS-EO

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  RUSSIA-EO14024

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

No corporate ownership records on file for this company. Ownership is recorded only where a register or a designating authority publishes it, and coverage is thin for companies outside the jurisdictions with open beneficial-ownership registers.

No people recorded against this company. Officer and ownership data comes from national business registers, and the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists — so a sanctioned company frequently has none.

Legal name

Russian Aerospace Forces

Also known as

Russian Aerospace Forces · RUSSIAN AEROSPACE FORCES · VKS

Jurisdiction

RU

First recorded here

18 Jul 2026

1. Sanction lifted: New Zealand — Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

   8 Sept 2026 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

2. Sanction listed: New Zealand — Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

   8 Sept 2026 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

3. Sanction listed: OFAC — IRAN-CON-ARMS-EO

   7 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Sanction listed: OFAC — RUSSIA-EO14024

   7 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Alias recorded: VKS

   7 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

6. Alias recorded: RUSSIAN AEROSPACE FORCES

   7 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

No corporate ownership records on file. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of a simple structure — see the risk breakdown, where the ownership component is left unscored for exactly this reason.

No people recorded against this company. Officer data comes from national business registers, and a company outside those jurisdictions will have none here even when its officers are publicly known elsewhere.

Nothing to draw: this company has no recorded links to another company on file.

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

Each reading is kept with the methodology version that produced it. A later reading is not a correction of an earlier one — it is a different question asked of more sources.

• Fact

  russian aerospace forces

  Legal name

  Evidence

  16560

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 5 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 4 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  RU

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  40191

  Read 28 Aug 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Russia

  Designation

  Evidence

  16560

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  New Zealand — Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

  Designation

  Evidence

  nz-ENT-142

  Read 8 Sept 2026 · in force from 2 Aug 2022 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IRAN-CON-ARMS-EO

  Designation

  Evidence

  40191

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — RUSSIA-EO14024

  Designation

  Evidence

  40191

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — Situation in Ukraine

  Designation

  Evidence

  58452

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

9 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.