South Korea has signed a contract with a Russian state-owned company to supply components and build buildings for Egypt's first nuclear power plant, Voice of America reports, citing unnamed Seoul officials..

Seoul submits $2.5 billion contract as success of nuclear technology. However, it is sharply discordant with the attempts of Seoul's closest allies - the United States - to put economic pressure on Russia and isolate it from modern technologies in connection with the war unleashed by Moscow in Ukraine..

For their part, representatives of South Korea said that preliminary consultations were held with the United States, which is a strategic ally of South Korea, on this contract and that the technologies transferred to Moscow by Seoul as part of the Egyptian project would not violate international sanctions against Russia..

At the very beginning of the large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, Seoul announced that South Korea would not supply computers, chips, microcircuits, as well as other goods and technologies to Russia and Belarus..