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There is a war going on with the russians and they desperately needed that nearly $400 billion in u.s. security assistance and the weapons that they need to resist the russian aggression. reporter: yeah, they certainly need that. and i think that there are several levels to that. when you speak to people here in kiev, it is something that you hear again and again and again. the kind of military aid that the ukranians get from the u.s. is mostly high tech stuff. we ve talked about the javelin anti-tank missiles, but also things like night visionphistic. so it is the high tech military goods that the ukranians desperately need to try to stand up to the pro-russian forces. but the other thing that is so important to the ukranians is also the fact that it makes a statement from the united states when they get that military aid that the u.s. has their back and obviously over the past couple weeks since that phone call came to light between president trump and president zelensky, there
Sanctions on russia including a ban on the export of military goods a major problem for the german cleaning machine company the sonic. machines in all our machines have dual use capability that means they can be used for peaceful purposes but they can also be used for military purposes that s the problem with our equipment. so the company has foregone business with russia worth 300000 euros it s also frustrating if it is sonics export agent. we re being replaced by suppliers from other countries especially china taiwan south korea and japan we ve been to russia many times and we see they re still getting machines we re clearly being replaced. russia responded with counter sanctions it banned e.u. food imports french cheese german sausage all vanished from russian supermarket
Engineering company in eastern germany makes ultrasonic cleaning machines there in demand worldwide good business for the money factory and its export agent for decades the export agent has had close trading ties with russia. here in eastern germany we ve always had a head start on the russian market they trusted us and relations generally were good the chemistry between supply and customer was good and we ve benefited from that in the past it really helped us but unfortunately it s no longer working for us. geopolitics got in the way the ukraine revolution russia s annexation of crimea and the war in eastern ukraine. the european union responded by imposing economic sanctions on russia including a ban on the export of military goods a major problem for the german cleaning machine company the sonic. machines in our
A big deal the only condition imposed by the german government is that the partner countries france and great britain should be assured by saudi arabia that these armaments will not be used in the yemen war but that is ridiculous einhorn many in the c.d.u. already fear that european partners will continue exporting weapons to the gulf region without including germany. follow clarity on this issue i m joined now by our chief political editor michelle look at upon him entry studious we shall know if jim is still sitting on the fence syria with a german to be sold to saudi arabia at some point in the future. well demi is certainly giving a very complicated answer to what is essentially a yes or no question it says it won t directly deliver any arms or any kind of parts for at least another six months and it s essentially asking its partners not to export any of those fully assembled weapons or any kind of military