Russia continues producing dozens of missiles every month despite years of Western sanctions. While much attention has focused on microchips entering Russia through intermediary countries, our investigation found another critical piece of the puzzle: European industrial machinery. Customs records obtained by the Kyiv Independent reveal that specialized metalworking equipment manufactured in Germany, Italy, Spain, and other EU countries continued reaching Russian metallurgical plants during the war through a Turkish intermediary. The Kyiv Independent’s Alisa Yurchenko investigates how these shipments kept reaching Russia despite sanctions.
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00:00 Russia’s missile production
02:14 Support independent journalism in Ukraine 02:32 How missiles are built
03:29 Europe’s industrial machinery
04:22 Following the supply chain
06:30 The Turkish intermediary
08:21 The sanctions loophole
10:55 Why it matters
Alexander Tattershall needs sanctioning; permanently.
And where are the European governments in all of this? Where is the EU and von der Layen?
All worthless entities in this time of dire crisis.