I don’t understand, were they supplying the technology directly to Russia for this purpose? Or are they guilty just by creating networking technology that in the wrong hands can be used for bad things?

especially when the company can see where that technology is operating and has the ability to restrict or disable it.

Right, so if this is actually true, a lot of us are completely compromised, don’t actually own our networking stacks, and it sets the precedent that all users of Ubiquiti products (and maybe even networking products in general) should have their traffic and device usage spied on.