Saudi Arabia doesn’t appear to have canceled the contract after the invasion started, despite the risk of repercussions from the U.S. — a major supplier of weapons to Saudi Arabia.Data included in the leak also shows that Russia has continued to sell arms to up to a dozen countries since the start of its invasion of Ukraine, bolstering its defense production and war effort.Apart from Saudi Arabia, the documents reveal contracts with traditional buyers of Russian weapons, such as India, China, or Algeria, none of which have stopped buying arms from Russia. The Kyiv Independent, in partnership with OCCRP, obtained a leak containing thousands of internal emails of Roselectronics, a subsidiary of Russia's state arms giant Rostec.Arms exports have traditionally been one of Russia’s biggest sources of revenue, although far behind oil and gas.

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