• awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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    "Ukraine’s anti-corruption watchdog wrote to German authorities and a Bavarian-based company seeking to halt the delivery to Russia of high-end machinery used by ammunition manufacturers.

    The National Agency on Corruption Prevention in Kyiv informed the German government that a so-called CNC machine manufactured by Spinner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH is en route to a plant in Russia from Turkey, according to letters seen by Bloomberg News and people familiar with the matter. The equipment is due to arrive later this month."

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      Thanks for the excerpt.

      a so-called CNC machine

      Really? Framing it “so-called” makes it sound esoteric and rare, while in fact it’s an utterly common machine tool used in many industries to create … pretty much anything (eg. casting dies for Lego bricks). I wish they’d tone down the alarmism (unless they know it’s ordered by “Ivan’s Shell Mfg. Co”).

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        Russia should be blackwalled until Putin is put down and this war is over. Sending anything… literally anything over there should be completely banned (especially if there is even a remote chance that it could assist Russian war efforts in any way).

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        FYI another commenter posted a longer version. Apparently it only showed me part of the article