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Remember the shuttles in the nineties? People who, at their own peril and risk, bought abroad everything that was not enough and everything that could be sold in Russia.

After the start of the war, there were several shuttle waves. There were shuttle diplomats who worked for rich people so that their accounts in the West would not be arrested. There were shuttles from FSB generals who tried to sell military secrets at a higher price - to try to exchange them for money or for guarantees of personal immunity after the fall of the regime.

Now there is a new wave of shuttles - hundreds of Russians with connections are looking for any contacts in order to bypass the sanctions to buy goods, without which the Russian industry is dying. In Italy, Korea and the UK they are looking for everything related to shipbuilding. They are trying to withdraw powder steel and aircraft parts from the USA. From France and Switzerland - optics. From China and Taiwan - microcircuits and copters. From Sweden, Germany and Finland - telecommunications equipment. There is a hunt for old tankers, etc.

And what is amazing is that people who fled the war and curse Putin are also participating in this. But the shuttles justify themselves - well, we need to live on something, we need to earn money somehow.

Guys, you are committing a crime. Because of your shuttle activity, people will die. Not a single engine, not a single microcircuit, not a single bearing for Putin. Nothing, more complicated than a handle from a sapper shovel. Don't take sin on your soul.