Posted on 04/03/2020 10:53:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MOSCOW - Ventilators delivered by Russia to the United States to help treat patients of the new coronavirus were manufactured by a Russian company that is under U.S. sanctions, Russia’s RBC business daily reported on Friday.
A Russian military plane carrying the ventilators landed in New York on Wednesday after U.S. President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone.
Russian state television footage of the plane’s unloading showed boxes of “Aventa-M” ventilators, which are produced by the Ural Instrument Engineering Plant (UPZ) in the city of Chelyabinsk, 930 miles east of Moscow, RBC reported.
UPZ is part of a holding company called Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET), which itself is a unit of Russian state conglomerate Rostec.
KRET has been under U.S. sanctions since July 2014, with U.S. firms and nationals barred from doing business with it.
In a statement on Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said the United States had agreed to purchase medical supplies from Russia, but it made no mention of any company nor regarding sanctions.
“Both countries have provided humanitarian assistance to each other in times of crisis in the past and will no doubt do so again in the future. This is a time to work together to overcome a common enemy that threatens the lives of all of us,” said the statement, issued by State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus.
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The proper response is....Thank You.
Do they work? If so, who gives a crap where they come from.
Today’s world — accept anything NOT made in China.
Gift Horse.
“The proper response is....Thank You.”
That is true. Its a shame American democrats cannot work with other to help Americans and America when trouble threatens. Pelosi and Schumer and Schitf face will complain and investigate this also.
I just started my relationship with Optimum for Medicare — turned 65 this month.
I’m afraid that most all of the o.t.c. benefits they send me will be MADE IN CHINA. Time to change the U.S.A. mindset.
Nobody cares.
Damn right.
It’ would be like a man dying from thirst refusing water because the man with the water trash talked him last year.
Reuters is getting worse every day.
Trump:”Sanctions? What sanctions? The President enforces the law, so if he doesn’t enforce it, then it’s not the law! Just ask Obama.....
:) indeed.
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