Between 2015 and 2020, France has provided 152 million euros of equipment for tanks, hunting planes and combat helicopters, reveals “disclose”.
Le Monde with AFP
France has delivered military equipment to Russia between 2015 and 2020, therefore after the European sanctions that followed the annexation of Crimea, under previous contracts, according to the revelations published Monday, March 14 by the online media Disclose .
“According to” confidential-defense “documents obtained by disclose and open source information, France has issued at least 76 export licenses for war materials to Russia since 2015,” said the Media, which has been illustrated several times by publishing information on sales of French weapons. The “total amount of these contracts” amounts to “152 million euros, as indicated by the last report to Parliament on arms exports,” adds disclose.
The government has confirmed this information, but defends any failure. “It was a residual flow, resulting from past contracts, mentioned in our annual reports in Parliament, and which was gradually extinguished,” summarizes the ministry of the armies with the world, adding that the embargo on The weapons for Russia, decided by the European Union since the 1 ER August 2014, after the annexation of the Crimea by Moscow, authorized the delivery of weapons related to contracts signed before The embargo. “France is not the only European country” to have acted, specifies the department.
Cameras for armored vehicles
Among the materials delivered are thermal cameras to equip the armored ones, according to disclose, which adds that these materials may be used by the Russian army in Ukraine. The French industry also delivered the Russian air force of navigation systems and helicopter imaging systems, according to the media.
“Each license is examined on a case-by-case basis, taking into account each of the particular situations, in accordance with our international commitments, including the common position and our interest well understood since 2014 not to provide armaments to Russia. d In 2015 for the Mistral, France chose not to export these buildings “, continues the ministry of the armies.
Neither the Elysee nor the Quai d’Orsay wanted to communicate on this subject.