According to the British media, sanctioned expensive cars are going to Russia from Georgia. However, the West banned their supply to Russia after the attack on Ukraine.

Porsche, Lamborghini, Maybach, Mercedes - according to the British Sky News, these cars enter Russia through the Lars checkpoint. These cars are a luxury to own. They cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and have been banned from entering Russia since Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale war in Ukraine.

Sky News reports that cars with transit numbers are easily transported to Russia. In the story published by the TV channel on September 24, the journalist says that the total value of the cars parked on Lars for transport to Russia is "millions of pounds (1 pound = 3.6 GEL)."

The video shows the new Range Rovers produced by the British company Jaguar. In February 2022, Britain banned exporting cars worth more than 42 thousand pounds to Russia. But Sky News has found that at the same time, the export of such vehicles to Azerbaijan has increased astronomically.

Most likely, the cars do not stay in Azerbaijan. According to Sky News, most of them meet in the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia.

The journalist wrote: “One group of men is charged with bringing the cars to the border - sometimes from showrooms in the capital, Tbilisi, sometimes from the Black Sea ports of Poti or Batumi. Mostly, they don't know where the cars come from beforehand - whether directly from countries like the UK or via other Caucasus states like Azerbaijan”.

The investigative journalist said no one is trying to hide what is happening. Everyone knows these expensive European cars are not supposed to go to Russia. However, they cross the border one after another every day. Everyone knows what is happening, but no one is trying to stop it.

One of the car manufacturers, Jaguar Land Rover, told Sky News that they have not introduced cars to the Georgian market. They were delivered to dealers in other countries that do not share a border with Russia and that share Western sanctions. Vehicles from those unnamed countries have already arrived in Georgia.

Officially, Georgia is committed to the sanctions imposed on Russia. In August 2023, it even partially banned the export of cars to Russia.

However, RFE/RL discovered that Georgia dramatically increased its car exports to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan after the war. Cars often go to Asia via Russia, and there is a good chance that some of them actually stay there. There are dozens of videos on the Internet where drivers are told that in order to bring a car from Georgia to Russia, they just need to say that they intend to sell it in Central Asia.