”No permit was issued for the export of arms and no arms were exported."

I'm fairly confident they're playing word games here and if they're found out they'll claim some narrow definition of "arms" (those are bullets, not arms!), or say they only shipped peaceful items from the dual-use lists and it's not their fault if Russia decided to give "military-grade construction helmets" and night-vision goggles and demolition materiel to their troops ....