According to him, European companies sell electronics to other countries, which, in turn, resell it to Russia, and the sanctions do not yet take into account this supply channel.
“Prior to early this year, Russia was able to reimport certain key categories of electronics at roughly pre-war levels,” O’Brien said.
As they say, we are talking about microcircuits, processors and integrated circuits that are necessary to create modern weapons.
The official stressed that sanctions circumvention remains a “significant problem.” Currently, the US has discovered the involvement of five countries: Turkey, Kazakhstan, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates and Armenia.
Russia bypasses sanctions
Despite the sanctions imposed against Russia, the aggressor country still has the resources to buy technology and produce weapons for the war against Ukraine.
In particular, a number of German companies are suspected of supplying electronics to the Russian market in circumvention of Western sanctions.
Also, earlier the media identified more than 20 European companies that still supply goods for the Russian army.
It is worth noting that at present the G7 countries have decided to concentrate on combating loopholes to circumvent sanctions against Russia.
2023-06-08 16:36:50
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