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France and Germany armed Russia with €273 million of military hardware now likely being used in Ukraine, an EU analysis shared with The Telegraph has revealed.
They sent equipment, which included bombs, rockets, missiles and guns, to Moscow despite an EU-wide embargo on arms shipments to Russia introduced in the wake of its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
The European Commission was this month forced to close the loophole after it was found that at least 10 member states exported almost €350 million in hardware to Putin’s regime. 78 per cent of that total was supplied by German and French firms.
Cristian Terhes, the Romanian MEP who shared the EU analysis, said: “While Ukraine is desperately crying out for weapons to defend itself from Putin’s invasion, Germany and France are silent, but they were happy to sell their wares to Moscow.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...many-evaded-arms-embargo-sell-weapons-russia/
They sent equipment, which included bombs, rockets, missiles and guns, to Moscow despite an EU-wide embargo on arms shipments to Russia introduced in the wake of its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
The European Commission was this month forced to close the loophole after it was found that at least 10 member states exported almost €350 million in hardware to Putin’s regime. 78 per cent of that total was supplied by German and French firms.
Cristian Terhes, the Romanian MEP who shared the EU analysis, said: “While Ukraine is desperately crying out for weapons to defend itself from Putin’s invasion, Germany and France are silent, but they were happy to sell their wares to Moscow.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...many-evaded-arms-embargo-sell-weapons-russia/