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Investigation: How EU machinery keeps feeding Russian missile makers
Investigations

Investigation: How EU machinery keeps feeding Russian missile makers

by Alisa Yurchenko

Editor's note: This investigation is a collaboration between The Kyiv Independent (Ukraine), IrpiMedia (Italy) and OCCRP.  The story is also available in German, translated by Krautreporter. Key findings * A Turkish company co-owned by an EU national shipped EU-made equipment to Russian defense plants despite European export restrictions, customs records reveal. * The Russian plants use such equipment to produce metal alloys, later used to make missiles and fighter jets. * Two plants that

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Drama, determination, and risk: Remembering how Ukraine's independence unfolded

Editor's note: Because both authors were direct participants in the events described, they are referred to by their first names — Nadia and Robert — throughout, to distinguish their individual roles and recollections. Neither the United States nor any other country recognized Ukrainian independence when, on Aug. 24, 1991, the Verkhovna Rada adopted its Act of the Declaration of the Independence of Ukraine. That fact is worth remembering. Why? Because passage of the Declaration reflected a shar

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