It may be difficult to believe, but it’s almost certainly true: UK firms are playing an important role in equipping Russia’s war machine. That’s the conclusion of Sky News data analysis released on February 21, which found that British companies are exporting hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment and machinery to former Soviet satellite states including Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Georgia that is then re-exported to Russia, undermining the official UK sanctions regime applied to the Kremlin. Drone equipment and heavy machinery are among the surging shipments with no other logica…