The Pentagon asks Congress to wait with sanctions against "Rosoboronexport"

Pentagon officials asked congressmen to wait for sanctions against Rosoboronexport. It is reported by The Christian Science Monitor, citing an unnamed employee of the Congress apparatus. The United States explained their request in the military department by the fact that Rosoboronexport is engaged in the supply of a Mi-17 helicopter to Afghanistan.

“In the dialogue with us, the Pentagon uses the word“ flexibility, ”said the interlocutor of the publication.“ This means that they want to do a great exception for Rosoboronexport.

Sanctions against the Russian enterprise were proposed to impose in response to the annexation of Crimea. Some congressmen also accused Rosoboronexport of supplying weapons of Syria and Iran. American parliamentarians consider it necessary to break a contract with Russia, and instead of Mi-17, buy Boeing CHINOOK military transport helicopters for Afghanistan.

Earlier in April, the director of the army, Major General Michael Williamson, warned that the contract of contract with Rosoboronexport could cost the state more than $ 100 million. The Democrat Senator Richard Blmental commented on Williamson’s statement: "If these are just fines for torn contracts, let the Russians try to recover them from us." According to Blumena, the United States should not spend the money of its taxpayers on payments to the enterprise, which provided Russian troops in the Crimea.

Under President George Bush Jr., the United States has already imposed sanctions against Rosoboronexport, but the successor to Bush Barack Obama canceled them, following the reloading policy declared. After that, a contract for the supply of helicopters was concluded with the Russian company.