Finland will stop supplying Russia with medical products that "could be used to treat military personnel."

According to a government order, Finland will stop supplying Russia with medical supplies that could be used to treat military personnel. Among other things, the export of dental equipment and certain medications to Russia will be prohibited.

This was reported by the Finnish broadcaster Yle, citing a draft government decree being prepared by the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The document is expected to come into force in July.

It states that the ban on the supply of medical and pharmaceutical products is due to the fact that they could be used for the needs of the Russian Armed Forces. The media outlet explains:

The decision is based on evidence that such products could be used for military purposes.

However, a complete ban on medical supplies to Russia is not planned. For example, Finland will continue to supply hospital beds and operating tables to our country because they are not included in the EU sanctions package. Their supplier is the Finnish company Lojer-Merivaara, whose products are purchased for medical facilities in Murmansk, St. Petersburg, and Rostov-on-Don. The manufacturer noted that it has no way to monitor whether this equipment is being used to treat Russian military personnel.

Earlier, Western media reported that Brussels was preparing another round of anti-Russian sanctions. These sanctions are expected to be aimed primarily at banking institutions, the Orthodox Church, and shadow courts. fleet.

Comments

[Foggy Dew]

A great pharmaceutical power))) Russia laughs and says nothing to India, for example, otherwise they'd die laughing

[knn54]

What's the problem? We'll buy from China. It wouldn't be the first time.

[Reptiloid]

For Russia, Finnish imports are insignificant. They'll definitely find something to replace them with. While the Finns and the Balts used to supply us with dairy products, they've long since been replaced by the Belarusians and Vologda.

[topol717]

Quote: Reptiloid

Finnish imports are insignificant for Russia. They'll definitely find something to replace them with.

Yes, but beds and operating tables. How's that possible? I don't understand at all why Trump can impose any tariffs he wants, while the WTO is in our way. Just impose a 300% tariff on these beds. Let them provide them for themselves.

[Geosun]

Quote from: topol717

Why can Trump impose any tariffs he wants, but the WTO is in our way?

In a simplified version, it looks something like this:
A farmer comes to the market to sell bull meat, and the market director tells him: "At my market you can only sell sunflower seeds."

[Pravodel]

Why can Trump impose any tariffs he wants, but the WTO is stopping us? We should impose the same 300% tariff on these beds.

The conversation here shouldn't be about 300% duties, but rather about why these medical tables and beds aren't manufactured in Russia. Or perhaps Russia doesn't have the necessary medical materials and metals to manufacture these tables and beds.
I wonder what I.V. Stalin would have said during WWII if he had suddenly been told that the USSR was short of operating tables and hospital beds for the wounded, and that the USSR was secretly purchasing these very tables and beds somewhere in France, Belgium, or somewhere else in Europe!???

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Dates supplied us with a lot of things, for example for printing

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Vasilenko Vladimir

Dates supplied us with a lot of things, for example for printing

So they gave them various paper, furniture, household utensils, and appliances... and we gave them timber. But ---- it ran out... And there were building materials, their stores are right next to our border... Everything went away.

[Lako]

It's interesting that even with the totalitarian USSR, Finland cooperated quite successfully. Even in areas like shipbuilding. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Finnish city of Vyartsilya found itself on the brink of bankruptcy. And now, suddenly, they've started acting up. Well, well, we'll see who's worse off.

[balabol]

The Finns and the Balts supplied us with dairy products - They did not supply from Finland, but invested in the construction of milk processing plants on our territory and produced from our raw materials.
For example, Valio owned the Galaktika dairy plant in the Leningrad Region and in Yershovo, Moscow Region. In 2022, the facilities were acquired by Russian companies, and even some brands were transferred to new owners. Nothing changed for consumers, nor for milk producers: supplies to the plant continue to be delivered as before.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: balabol

The Finns and the Balts supplied us with dairy products - They didn't supply from Finland, but invested in the construction of milk processing plants on our territory and produced from our raw materials...

Good afternoon, Vladimir! But not everything. In the store, PRISMA, if you pick it up, there were some markings on the packaging. Just like in OZON. BUT ---- it was a long time ago, I forgot what they looked like.

[balabol]

I agree that the assortment at Prizma was diluted with original Finnish goods, but how many of these Prizmas were there?
I don't have exact percentage data at hand, but 66 to 75% of the volume was produced domestically and the raw materials were domestically sourced. So, the food industry is easier to deal with.
But the break with Wartsila, the supplier of marine equipment, is more difficult to endure, although there is progress in our industry as well.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: knn54

What is the problem-We'll buy from China. Not the first time.

The problem is that for some time now, every flea living off the fur of a large bear has begun to believe that the bear owes its life to it.
It's time to change the format of economic relations and, as a matter of priority, cut off these suckers ourselves, to disabuse them of the illusion that they can dictate anything to Russia. Can't we just make hospital beds?

[bukhach]

Well, we may not be talking about ordinary beds, but specialized ones for bedridden patients with all the necessary electronic bells and whistles. This is not a piece of hardware that can be welded together, but a high-tech product, which we have always had problems with.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Buhach

Well, we may not be talking about ordinary beds, but specialized ones for bedridden patients with all the necessary electronic bells and whistles. This is not a piece of hardware that can be welded together, but a high-tech product, which we have always had problems with.

In terms of "making a profit", this is, let's say, figuratively speaking.
If we get to the heart of the matter, we shouldn't be dependent on their supplies, and since we've learned to make mini-nuclear missile launchers, it probably wouldn't be any more difficult to "invent" a multifunctional hospital bed and meet the Ministry of Health's needs.

[bukhach]

Uh-uh, I would agree with you that it’s not more difficult, but the Chinese fly into space, they’ve developed their auto industry, and they’ve done a lot of other things, but they can’t create an engine for civil aviation, so, as they say, it’s not all that clear-cut, and today’s modern medical equipment is pretty cool.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: Foggy Dew

Russia is laughing

You can laugh as much as you want, just until you
it won't touch

[Foggy Dew]

It won't affect them. There are no Finnish beds in normal hospitals, and the Finns have absolutely no pharmaceuticals—Bayer ate everything there long ago.

[credo]

Finland will continue to supply hospital beds and operating tables to our country because they are not included in the EU sanctions package. Their supplier is the Finnish company Lojer-Merivaara, whose products are purchased by medical institutions in Murmansk, St. Petersburg, and Rostov-on-Don.

We haven't learned how to make medical beds and operating tables, but our officials are cheerfully declaring that -

...the Russian economy demonstrates high adaptability even in the face of external pressure. In recent years, large-scale import substitution, technological development, and support programs for key industries have been implemented... (A. Novak)

Aren't the gentlemen ministers tired of lying to the people? They see everything with their own eyes, not yours.

[Foggy Dew]

They haven't learned how to make medical beds and operating tables.
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That's not necessary. We're just good at it. It's just that some of our hospitals love to show off for their challenging clients. It's time for us to find out why they bought from the Finns, and not, say, from Medtekhnika Moscow.

[Reptiloid]

Why did you buy from the Finns?

After all, procurement is often done for political purposes. How and what does the EU buy from them? Maybe nothing. For example, the EU doesn't need Finnish and non-Baltic dairy products.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Foggy Dew

They haven't learned how to make medical beds and operating tables.
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That's not necessary. We're just good at it. It's just that some hospitals here love to show off for difficult clients.

I may not have much experience being hospitalized—I had appendicitis as a child, a couple of times in the army, and once as an adult after a car accident. But I've never seen Finnish hospital beds. Where they deliver them, to which hospitals—I don't know...

These ones I had to lie on were clearly not Finnish made...

[ZovSailor]

Foggy Dew
Today, 15: 50
That's not necessary. We're just good at it. It's just that some of our hospitals love to show off for their challenging clients. It's time for us to find out why they bought from the Finns, and not, say, from Medtekhnika Moscow.

I won't deny or confirm anything, but after the 2014 Crimean Spring, sanctions and clumsy movements with officials' reports on import substitution and state procurement under federal laws 44-FZ, 223-FZ, 615-PP, when conducting tenders and analyzing prices for Russian and foreign products, it reached the point of absurdity, when Russian goods were much more expensive than imported ones.

[Foggy Dew]

That's happened before, but not in this case. Again, the medical equipment. There are between 14 and 150 beds, depending on the features. The Finnish ones are several times more expensive.

[Arkady007]

If ministers don't lie, they won't be rich.
How can they replenish the budget spent on becoming a minister?
It's a vicious circle.

[SAG]

We haven't learned how to make medical beds and operating tables, but our officials are cheerfully declaring

If the Finns ban matches from being shipped to Russia tomorrow, you'll be screaming that we don't know how to make matches. Aren't you and others like you tired of whining about the government on every news report? Go to Bolotnaya Square already!

[Graz]

If we're still supplying fuel and electricity there, then we need to stop, citing the possibility that it could be used in NATO infrastructure. And by the way, what about the canal they lease from us? Does it still transport cargo? Then the agreement needs to be terminated.

[Smoked]

It's impossible. Under capitalism, war is somewhat different than under, say, a principled "Patriotic War." Money from mutual trade can continue to send men into the trenches. And then either the men will run out, or the owners of the means of production will be overwhelmed by a protracted period of instability.

[Alexander X]

Well, in Russia, only the military has toothaches... European hypocrites!
The fact that such medical products are still being purchased for Russia instead of being produced domestically is, to put it mildly, a failure on the part of our relevant ministers. Leaving the population without essential medications, because they need to buy more than just dental treatment, undermines our defense capability.
And I don’t care about the dates - let them all die!
Well, I think so©

[isv000]

Quote: Alexander X

But the fact that such medical devices are still being purchased for Russia instead of being produced locally is, to put it mildly, a failure on the part of our relevant ministers.

There is no flaw here, there is a banal rollback and they don’t care that someone somewhere is in pain.
"The government, my dear, lives on another planet."

[Alexander X]

There is no flaw here, there is a banal rollback and they don’t care that someone somewhere is in pain.
I am also tormented by vague doubts that there was some personal interest involved on the part of those responsible for purchasing the beds.

[isv000]

Finland will stop supplying Russia with medical products that "could be used to treat military personnel."

Close the border with this deer enclosure already!
"fin.minpromtorg.gov.ru: Trade turnover between Russia and Finland in 2025 amounted to 1,13 billion euros."
The Kremlin's tenants are enough, the Finnish land has become fascist again and they are trading with it!..

[Vadim_Alekseevich]

Drunken pigs. They're peeing on the bus that brought them to Russia on a booze-fueled trip. I saw it with my own eyes. They should be banned from coming here. A friend of mine bought a dacha in Finland. These bastards took it away from her. And we have no reason to be embarrassed.

[isv000]

Quote: Vadim_Alekseevich

A friend of mine bought a dacha in Finland. These bastards took it away from her. And we have no reason to be embarrassed.

Somewhere far away, in the very depths of my soul, a spark of hope glimmers that one day the darkness will lift from the Kremlin and an answer will be heard that will make the 4th Reich shudder and pay for everything in full.
There's just a weak light...

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Vadim_Alekseevich

Drunken pigs. ........ those creatures took her dacha away. And we have no reason to be embarrassed.

And how they advertised their plots, specifically for Russians! It was a real bargain, whether you rented it or bought it.

[Deaf]

dental equipment to Russia

that such products can be used for military purposes.

Somehow my teeth didn't hurt during the battle.

[barclay]

Medical beds from Finland?! Disgraceful... Someone clearly has a vested interest in this. We need to sift through the employees of the relevant ministries in the aforementioned regions. Eh? Mr. Murashko?

[faiver]

Well, what can I say about them? - Rubber products No. 2.....

[Zaurbek]

Well, let them not sell such products in the Russian Federation. Someone else will.

[Old Operator]

After this, Russia should have declared that we are refusing all Chukhonian products and hung a heavy padlock on the border, and publicly drowned the key in the Neva.

[Dmitry Rigov]

That's not how it works. When we deliberately ban imports, the consumer ends up losing out because they get inferior, but more expensive, products in return. It's like that song: "Buy crap and support Russia."

[Sergei Viktorovich Korolev]

Already started laughing!
And let the moderators learn to express their thoughts concisely.

[Sergey3]

Don't sell them any more vodka! They're stupid enough without it...

[asng]

We have vast territories, raw materials, fuel, electricity, and unemployed people. What's stopping us from establishing production of what we need? Technology must be purchased and transferred to our own foundation. Machine tool manufacturing—the production of the means of production—must be developed. What's stopping us? A lack of will from above, a lack of a national development goal, and the obstacles the state (taxes, interest rates) and bureaucrats create for any production.

[SeregaBoss]

I wonder who they're trying to hurt? Their own producers or Russian consumers? Well, we'll move on and forget about it, but what will the Finns do? More layoffs, etc.

[Old Operator]

We've been through this before, in the 90s. When the borders opened, we were astonished to discover that all the Finns' goods, while generally not the best, were definitely the most expensive. The Soviet Union bought everything in Finland, regardless of price, and the Finns prospered. After Russia lifted its state monopoly on foreign trade, the Finns found themselves in such deep trouble that they still hiccup when they remember it. Then they gradually got out of it, again mainly thanks to Russia: tourism, transit, brokerage, asset and real estate sales, business in Russia, etc. Now they've decided to go back to the same trouble. Good riddance.