Katerina Schwartz09:54, 04/07/24
It is noted that exports to former Soviet states have grown to unprecedented levels.
Exports of goods from Britain, including components and parts for missiles and drones, to countries neighboring Russia have increased by hundreds of percent since the beginning of 2022 – following the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, writes Sky News economics and data editor Ed Conway in a column on The Sunday Times.
“Until 2022, British companies were sending quite a lot of goods to Russia, worth about £3 billion a year. All this was supposed to end after February 2022… Politicians and wealthy businessmen were put on the sanctions list, Russian foreign bonds were frozen, and export bans were imposed on thousands of categories of goods to Russia… These initial sanctions largely amounted to starving Vladimir Putin’s war machine, depriving it of the funding and components needed to produce weapons, drones, radar equipment and so on,” the author points out. .
However, it is noted that goods from Britain continue to arrive in Russia, although not directly, but from its neighboring countries:
“Enterprising Ukrainians methodically analyzed the components of Russian weapons. What they found was astonishing: thousands of components produced in Western countries, including Britain, long after the war began… The figures I extracted from the Revenue and Customs database were one “One of the most astonishing things I’ve seen in all my years as a journalist. They showed that our exports to the former Soviet states had risen to unprecedented levels – by thousands of percent… The deeper I dug into the data, the more alarming it became.”
For example, it is indicated that exports of components used in Russian military systems to Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan have grown by more than 500% since the beginning of 2022.
“Millions of pounds worth of drone and helicopter parts, aeronautical equipment and advanced optics – the very goods we should not be sending anywhere near Russia – have all been sent from British factories to countries bordering Russia,” the editor said.
He said the British government says it is “doing everything it can to stop these flows, but it appears to be fighting a losing battle; money always seems to win.”
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Britain is making big money on the war in Ukraine: 500% more sales to Russia for spare parts for the Russian Army……………………it was 3 billion dollars before, now 15 billion dollars per year.
Kick them out of NATO.
It’s not “Britain”, it’s criminals with no link to the govt.
You want Ukraine’s third biggest military and humanitarian supporter to be kicked out of Nato; presumably ahead of Hungary and Slovakia, because some criminal company directors are profiteering from the war?
The convoys of trucks that pass through Europe, Turkey, Georgia and Armenia contain all sorts of illegal swag; including weapons and weapon components. The directors of these companies reside in the EU; including in Holland. The biggest supplier of sanction-busting materials is German companies. You want them kicked out of Nato too?
When Holland’s electorate gave a majority to a putinoid scrote; Wilders, did you call for Holland to be kicked out too?
After leaving the EU, they were looking for new export markets, well, they found them.
Yet another example of paper sanctions passed without allocating the necessary ressources and legal framework to efficiently enforce them. That can’t work, essentially is only window dressing.
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Outrageous how much corrupt Western companies are supplying the rashist shit hole.🤬😤😠
Sanctions without legal repercussions have never worked, are not working, and never will work. This is just one more Western jellyfish aspect that we have to deal with.