The woman who is likely to be the next prime minister of Britain approved £289m of UK exports with potential military use to Russia before the invasion of Ukraine, Matt Kennard of Declassified reported on 28 July.
Liz Truss (now foreign secretary) was secretary of state for international trade from July 2019 to September 2021: she was in charge of regulating the export of British arms and ‘dual use’ (possibly military) equipment.
According to Kennard, Truss approved the export of £149m-worth of dual use equipment to Russia in 2021 – and the export of possibly dual use viruses to Russian researchers.
Topics: Arms trade, Russia