2023-09-13 18:18:00
par Kasper Goossens
published on Wednesday September 13, 2023 at 8:18 p.m. •
5 min reading
The net of sanctions around Russia is unclear. For example, Russian airlines still manage to buy spare parts in Europe for their Boeing and Airbus. They do this through a network of Russians in the West, companies linked to them and countries that do not support sanctions, reveals Medusa.
Why is this important?
The aim of Western sanctions is to wring the neck of the Russian economy, so that financing the “special military operation” becomes simply impossible. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has had to face numerous sanctions, but not all of them seem so watertight.
In the news : Between March 2022 and March 2023, Russia imported 18 billion rubles (175 million euros) of aircraft parts.
The vast majority of delivered parts enter Russia via the United Arab Emirates (9 billion rubles), China (5 billion) and Turkey (2 billion). But European countries also continue to supply Moscow, even though they have been labeled “hostile” by Russia and are co-signing European sanctions.
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