# How does Russia keep evading sanctions?

https://mins.news/en/video/97659

- DW News, 2026-10-13 08:31 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALShl1UH8ZI

> The EU has announced nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex. Mykola Bielieskov, a research fellow at Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies and senior analyst at Come Back Alive, examines Russia’s reliance on foreign technology, how Moscow circumvents restrictions, and whether sanctions can disrupt missile and drone supply chains and weaken its ability to wage war against Ukraine.

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