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Giorgia Orlandi

Italian companies operating in Russia funnel €1 billion in taxes to the Kremlin war machine

Italian companies still operating in the Russian Federation are filling the Kremlin's war coffers despite active EU sanctions, according to data compiled by the Kyiv School of Economics as part of its Leave Russia project.

According to Andrii Onopriienko, the head of the project, around €346 million in contributions are paid by Italian companies each year for a total of around €1.037bn since the full-scale attack on Russia's western neighbour was launched.

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