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1/ #Breaking Missiles, aircraft, bombs: EU states exported weapons to Russia until at least '20. 🇷🇺 bought arms from 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 & others after the 2014 embargo. € 346 MLN worth of military equipment; some of it possibly used in #Ukraine right now. A thread. investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/eu-sta…
2/ Each year EU Member States are supposed to share their #ArmsExport numbers & policies with #COARM, a working party of @EUCouncil. According to its little known data, ten EU countries exported arms to #Russia in the years 2015-2020, @investigate_eu can report. 
3/ This comes after the EU has agreed to stop exporting arms to Russia, following the illegal annexation of #Crimea and Russia-backed proclamation of indepedence by separatists republics in the #Donbass region. Here’s an excerpt of the @EUCouncil’s decision.
