ℹ Two years after #russia invaded #Ukraine, Russian titanium keeps flowing to the West
Western firms bought hundreds of millions of dollars of titanium metal from a company in #russia with deep ties to the country’s defense industry after the 2022 invasion of #Ukraine, according to a review of russian export data
Russia still does a lot of trade with the West. It's shrunk dramatically, but they still make good money trading non-sanctioned goods (titanium is just one of those goods). This is money that greases their war machine.