Russia is plundering gold in Sudan to boost Putin's war effort in Ukraine
CNN Exclusive by Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Tamara Qiblawi, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mohammed Abo Al Gheit and Darya Tarasova
Video by Alex Platt and Mark Baron
Graphics by Sarah-Grace Mankarious, Marco Chacón, Natalie Croker and Henrik Pettersson
Days after Moscow launched its bloody war on Ukraine, a Russian cargo plane stood on a Khartoum runway, a strip of tarmac surrounded by red-orange sand. The aircraft's manifest stated it was loaded with cookies. Sudan rarely, if ever, exports cookies.