Bombshell-Ukraine War: France and Germany Evaded Arms Embargo to Sell $295 Million Weapons to Russia

France and Germany ‘sold $295 million of military hardware including bombs, missiles and guns to Moscow’

likely used in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – despite EU-wide arms embargo in wake of 2014 annexation of Crimea

• The EU banned ‘the direct or indirect sale, supply, transfer or export of arms’
• Countries used a technicality that permitted contracts signed before 2014
• France was responsible for making €152 million as part of 76 export licenses