30.03.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
The aggressor country Russia has increased the import of explosives necessary for the production of artillery ammunition. Even despite the sanctions, purchases of explosives from companies located in the United States and other Western countries have increased.
We are talking about nitrocellulose, a product that plays a key role in the production of gunpowder and rocket fuel. Its imports to the Russian Federation increased by 70% in 2022 and by mid-2023 amounted to 3,039 tons of product. According to The Wall Street Journal, this is almost double the 2021 level.
Nitrocellulose is produced in only a few countries in the world and is subject to international trade restrictions. Russia itself produces little of it. But after the introduction of US and EU sanctions against the Russian Federation, China increased supplies of nitrocellulose to the aggressor country.
Companies from the USA, Germany and Taiwan, also among the producers of nitrocellulose, have not stopped supplies to the Russian Federation over the past two years (according to trade data). Thus, the Russian importer Analytical Marketing Chemical Group has received about $700 thousand worth of nitrocellulose from Taiwan over the past two years. This importer is a permanent partner of the Kazan State Powder Plant.
Until the middle of last year, one Turkish company, Noy İç Ve Diş Ti̇caret, provided almost half of Russian imports of this product (according to Russian customs data).
German subsidiaries of New York-based International Flavors & Fragrances sold at least 80 tons of nitrocellulose to Noy, which sent the material to Russia last year. An International Flavors & Fragrances spokesperson said the company was surprised to learn that the supply of nitrocellulose it had suspended in April 2022 continued through a third party.
Taiwanese company TNC Industrial produced more than 500 tons of the compound, which Noy supplied to Russia last year. The Hagedorn-NC company, which has been producing nitrocellulose in Germany for more than a century, has produced a similar amount of products over the past two years, also supplied by Noy to the Russian Federation.
As OBOZ.UA reported, the transit of cars from the European Union to Russia through Belarus has finally begun to be blocked. Poland and Latvia have already introduced strict restrictions, and Lithuania may join them in the near future. It was through these countries that cars were transported to the Russian Federation, bypassing sanctions.
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I have a grand idea. Why don’t we send bombs, missiles, and everything else needed to murder a nation directly to mafia land? This way we could end this war very quickly. It’s just a nuisance anyway.
People, you just cannot make this shit up. Quite frankly, I’m at a loss for words.
Adding insult to injury is that at the same time as Russian imports spiked, Western producers of ammunition had trouble getting enough explosives for increasing their output. So, this sanctions evasion scheme hurt Ukraine in two ways. And all because Nato governments didn’t allocate the necessary manpower to convincingly enforce the rules. Once again, the plan to rely on businesses voluntarily sticking to the law failed, as virtually every time before. Profits are a stronger motivation than ethics! 😠
It was also a gross failure not to attach Draconian punishments on sanction violations. I don’t know why the West is always so damned incompetent in everything it does.
True, Mr. Ofp. :sigh:
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Outrageous!!! It’s not even a ‘duel use’ item. I’m flabbergasted that such a critical component in rashists ability to cause suffering, death, and destruction is not only still being provided, but to such extent it has hindered our abilities to provide Ukraine what it requires in a timely fashion as well as making it more difficult to produce the quantities Ukraine needs.
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