“The West must get serious about strangling Russia’s ability to produce weapons,” Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on X (Twitter) on Jan. 19.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russia continues to utilise dozens of critical components for the manufacture of missiles, so every instance of sanctions evasion calls for an immediate response.
According to Zelensky, there are “clear facts” that many of the parts in Russian missiles are made by “companies from the free world.” He wants allies to respond more actively to Moscow’s attempts to circumvent sanctions by preventing it from producing weapons.
Imports of dual-use goods in the first nine months of 2023 fell by 28.5% compared with the same time period before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and imports of military components fell by only 9.
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