There are no more problems with the transit of European goods to Russia through Turkey: customs consistently releases goods by all modes of transport, the Russian edition of VPost reports, citing employees of several logistics companies..

Since the beginning of March, Turkish customs services have stopped processing transit deliveries of European goods, both sanctioned and ordinary, to Russia. The Turkish customs system blocked any transit clearance with the country of destination "

This happened shortly after the February visit to Turkey by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, one of whose tasks was to convince the country to comply with Western sanctions.. Bloomberg, citing a high-ranking Turkish official, wrote that the country, under pressure from Washington, decided to imitate Western sanctions..

However, according to the interlocutors of the publication, the reason for the restriction was that Turkey, which is part of a single customs zone with the European Union, had to enter data from the February package of EU sanctions into the transit clearance system..

In February, the European Union banned the supply of many types of equipment and electronics to Russia - electric generators, pumps, binoculars, radars, snowmobiles, truck parts. And the United States banned the supply of electronics and household appliances more than $ 300, in which more than 25% of American technology.

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According to the Russian edition, there were no changes in the process of deliveries of goods from the list of sanctions through Turkey either.. Such goods never leave the supplier directly to Russia: they are received by a Turkish company, or they go in transit to a third country, which means that formally, according to the documents, no violations are recorded..

The day before, Bloomberg wrote about increased US pressure on Turkey and the UAE due to their ties with Russia.. The Wall Street Journal, in turn, reported that the Russian Federation imports computer chips prohibited by sanctions on a pre-war scale, and Turkey helps it, in particular..