Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian energy sector has been broadly targeted by 19 rounds of European sanctions. Coal, oil and gas have all been affected. However, the nuclear industry has been completely spared and remains the exception.
In Brussels, discussions about potential sanctions, initially planned for June 2025, were postponed. At a time when France is described as one of the main countries opposing a full ban on Russian nuclear deliveries, a report published on Wednesday, January 28, by the anti-nuclear NGO Greenpeace once again underscored that the trading of uranium, the fuel for nuclear power plants, continues between Paris and Moscow, shrouded in opacity.
The links between France and Russia on this issue have been extensively documented in recent years. Ships from Saint Petersburg or Ust-Luga, on the Russian Baltic coast, regularly continue to dock at the Port of Dunkerque, northern France, carrying containers filled with uranium in various forms. While France does not import natural uranium mined in Russia itself, the latest customs data analyzed by Greenpeace showed that between 2022 and September 2025, nearly half of these raw material imports came from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two former Soviet republics.
Who all is still trading with Israel despite their genocide?
“but whatabout…”
Sorry I intruded on your “Russia is uniquely bad” circle jerk.
Genocide bad. But topic: French/Russian relations. Expect downvotes for trying to hijack.
We do need to improve how we use the fediverse if we are going to cover topics fruitfully.
There’s more than one genocide currently happening, and if you are North American, you are passively participating. Please post that broader discussion in its own thread, it’s how discussion fora work. I will get you started: the genocide on turtle island hasn’t fully stopped. The Uyghurs are being erased. Island nations are being dispersed. Sudan is suffering. These are all urgent and connected, as with Gaza. We all have a stake.
Your list includes things that are not equivilent. The way the world (particularly “the west”) relates to Israel in the midst of its acute and asymmetrical destruction of Palestine is superlative to the others with the arguable exception of Sudan.