Sanctions against Russia – how Russia gets Western rifles and ammunition – World

The aggressor state, as expected, found effective loopholes to circumvent.

The Russian Federation manages to purchase thousands of Western rifles and millions of cartridges from EU and US companies every year. This is despite the sanctions introduced due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

This is stated in the investigation of The Insider.

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As the investigators found, when after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the EU countries imposed an embargo on the supply of weapons to Russia, two huge loopholes remained in the restrictions. First, EU Council Resolution No. 833/2014 of July 31, 2014, which banned arms exports to Russia, allowed new deliveries under contracts concluded before August 1, 2014. Secondly, the document did not provide for any control measures regarding exports to the countries of the Customs Union — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which are united with Russia as a single customs space, so…