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Big surprise among Putin's brownnosers - Break the Fake - TVP World (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2024 OP
Good OP! marble falls May 2024 #1

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Thu May 9, 2024, 02:41 PM
May 2024
https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/23/ukraine-france-and-germany-sents-arms-to-russia-despite-eu-blockade-16521171/

France and Germany ‘sold £230,000,000 of weapons to Russia before invasion’
Sean SeddonPublished Apr 23, 2022, 8:31am|Updated Apr 23, 2022, 11:20am

Almost four fifths of the £230 million worth of lethal equipment was sent by France and Germany.

The German government said the sale of ‘dual-use’ equipment like rifles and armoured vehicles was only authorised after it received assurances they were not for military use.

French firms were allowed to honour contracts agreed before the 2014 assault on Ukrainian territory, which a defence ministry spokesperson has previously defended as a ‘grandfather’ clause.

Equipment worth £33 million was sent to Russia last year by EU firms, according to European Commission data seen by the paper.
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