Speaking later, von der Leyen said she thought it would be possible to disburse the first tranche of the €45bn funding planned for 2026 in this quarter, meaning by the end of June. The first payment, she indicated, would fund Ukraine’s domestic drone production – “drones from Ukraine for Ukraine”.
Evasion is a reality. Every time they enact another sanctions package, there are new lists of persons and companies, and yes, they are not very effective. But life without them would be much worse.
In the current sanctions package: no selling of fancy machine tools into Kyrgyzstan. Because (not a surprise) it turns out that companies from there resell those to Russia.