Information from the presidential staff of Ukraine • “Components appear in Russian weapons”
Russia uses a fake transport network to be able to ship sanctioned goods from EU countries. Zelenskyi’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, claims that.
“Western components appear in Russian weapons,” he writes in a post on Telegram.
With the help of fictitious companies and fake transport networks, Russia can evade Western sanctions, and in this way receive delivery of EU-sanctioned goods – which are actually intended for transport to Central Asia and the Caucasus region, among others.
This is claimed by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andrii Yermak, in a post on Telegram.
“Middle companies are used to procure Western electronic components with dual purposes. Fake companies are also created to form a “shadow fleet” of LNG tankers, and to transport liquefied natural gas,” writes Andrii Yermak in the statement.
Components of Russian weapons
He also points out that Western components appear in Russian weapons.
“At the same time, the Russian Federation-Iran-North Korea alliance has already become a military that openly mocks democracies,” Yermak continues in the statement.
Yermak is now asking the outside world to act urgently against Russia.
“There is less and less time left to strengthen the position of democracies in the world and it is necessary to act now,” he writes further.
The Great Invasion of Ukraine
As a result of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU and the US have imposed sanctions on Russia, which primarily target oil and gas.
Among others, the United States and Canada have banned all imports of Russian oil and gas. The EU has introduced measures that will effectively stop 90 percent of imports, with some exceptions for countries in the East that have become dependent on pipelines from Russia.
Britain imposed the biggest sanctions package yet against Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers on 17 October.