Rheinmetall Denel Munition has vehemently denied any involvement in supplying weapons to Vladimir Putin's forces. | Lisaleesolomon1 MarvinCharles_
Rheinmetall Denel Munition denied any involvement in supplying weapons to Russia.
RDM was referring to the Lady R, the Russian ship which docked in the Simon's Town naval base in December last year. At the time, eyewitnesses reported seeing goods off-loaded from the ship in the dead of night. RDM has two factories in Cape Town - one in Somerset West, outside Cape Town, and a chemical factory for raw materials at Krantzkop, close to Wellington, Western Cape.On Thursday, the US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, said America was convinced that South Africa had supplied arms to Russia.
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