The European Union has quietly agreed to lift restrictions supplying Kiev with military technology and equipment which can be used for the repression in the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
During a recent meeting of the Council of Europe in Brussels, leaders of EU member states agreed on the quiet to remove restrictions on exports to Kiev of equipment that could be used for internal repression, the ministry said in a statement on its website. The decision to restart issuing licenses for special military equipment exports came despite the continuing anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine, the ministry said.
It is obvious why the EU is ignoring indisputable facts of shelling of Russian territory [in the southwest Russian region of Rostov] from the Ukrainian side: the perspective of feeling your own involvement in such actions creates certain discomfort in Brussels, the statement said.
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