KRET has been under US sanctions since July 2014, with US firms and nationals barred from doing business with it.
The issue was further complicated by the question of whether it was the United States or Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF, which was added to US sectoral sanctions in 2015, that paid for the ventilators.“The United States is purchasing the supplies and equipment outright, as with deliveries from other countries.
Additional rounds of sanctions have since been imposed on Moscow in response to its alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections and alleged involvement in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018. Moscow denies both allegations. Trump on Thursday described the Russian shipment as containing “a lot of medical, high-quality stuff” which could save a lot of lives and said he’d “take it every day” if he had the opportunity.The Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow had paid half the cost with the other half picked up by Washington, though the Trump administration official later said the United States had picked up the whole tab.
The Trump administration official insisted the United States paid the entire cost of the shipment and dismissed the Russian investment fund’s contention that the cost was split.
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