🇺🇸 The U.S. lifted sanctions on some companies that supplied sanctioned equipment to Russia

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has removed a number of companies from its sanctions list that sold equipment to Russia, including goods for the defense sector.

Source: Gazeta.UA

Among them are:

• Cyprus-based Veles International Limited and its owner Dmytro Buhaienko (a subsidiary of a Moscow investment firm; Moscow legal entities remain under sanctions);
• Dubai-based 365 Days Freight Services FZCO;
• Turkish company Etasis;
• Finnish company Hi-Tech Koneisto and its top manager Yevheniia Dremova.

These companies supplied Russia with optoelectronic, laboratory, and other equipment used in the military-industrial complex.

The reasons for lifting the sanctions have not been disclosed, and it is also unknown whether this will affect U.S. policy regarding Russian end users of the products.