The Walloon Government has concluded that there is "no evidence" that Belgian weapons are currently being sold to Russia via Serbia.
The news follows Walloon Minister-President Elio Di Rupo's decision earlier this month to ban local arms manufacturer New Lachaussée from selling weapons to Belgrade, after RTBF reported that the firm was contravening EU sanctions by illicitly supplying Russia in its war in Ukraine.
"According to the American defence attaché in Serbia, there is no indication of Serbian exports to Russia (nor to Belarus), nor currently any trace of Serbian ammunition on the battlefield in Ukraine," announced a Walloon delegation commissioned by Di Rupo, following a recent three-day mission to Serbia.
"There is therefore no evidence to suggest that there would have been a circumvention of the EU sanctions against Russia or the Russian embargo," it added.
According to a study published earlier this year by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank, Belgium is proportionally the 24th largest contributor of aid to Ukraine. Belgium sent €245 million (or 0.05% of its GDP) in military, humanitarian, and financial support to Kyiv over the course of 2022.
