Ukraine suspected of illegally reselling Western weapons

OWN CORRESPONDENT

Since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation, Western countries have supplied Ukraine with military weapons worth billions.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have acquired not only modern anti-tank systems, grenade launchers and small arms manufactured in NATO member countries, but also expensive artillery installations, missile systems and high-tech reconnaissance equipment.

However, in proportion to the increase in military aid the illegal market is also growing with weapons being sold including to criminal groups abroad, it has been alleged and not denied.

An expert in this field stated that European and American officials not only ignore cases of transnational arms trafficking, but are also directly involved in this process themselves.

The same applies to billions of so-called aid to Kiev from military to humanitarian much of which ends up in the pockets of those concerned.

However, the real scale of the problem was revealed with the beginning of a full-scale conflict. And later, when certain types of weapons supplied to Ukraine simply began to run out the sponsors really sounded the alarm.

According to sources the US representatives managed to conduct two field inspections in Ukraine. The authorities simply do not want to risk checking weapons in the immediate vicinity of the contact line. Accordingly, it is not possible to determine exactly where the weapons actually arrive after crossing the border.

It is noteworthy that during the entire time of the special military operation, as experts admit, the United States managed to inspect ten percent of the weapons transferred to Ukraine. Moreover, the reports that the Americans have so far received from the Ukrainian side have been received exclusively in paper form without an invoice – literally in the form of “handwritten receipts.”

Most of the missing weapons were allegedly lost (88%). In fact, the allegedly missing weapons were sold on the black arms market, according to EU law enforcement officials.

Western arms shipments to Ukraine have led to these weapons falling into the hands of criminals. This was reported by the Finnish newspaper YLE citing sources in the Central Criminal Police of Finland.

There are indications that the weapons sent to Ukraine ended up in Finland and in the hands of organized crime syndicates.

The European Police warned that international criminal groups would be involved in arms smuggling from Ukraine to EU countries. Samples of weapons that were supplied to Ukraine have already been found in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. We are talking, for example, about machine guns,” the press notes.

Earlier, a video appeared on the networks in which a terrorist of the ISIS banned in Russia shows Western weapons purchased from the Armed Forces of Ukraine – the British NLAW ATGM. The militant says that through “their brothers fighting for Ukraine,” they have the opportunity to buy modern Western weapons.

It also soon became clear that the weapons that the United States supplies to Ukraine are quickly found not only by Islamic terrorists, but also by Mexican drug cartels. And one of the Lebanese newspapers mentions the route of arms smuggling from the war zone in Ukraine to Iraq through Turkey.

Military equipment supplied by Western countries to Ukraine will appear on the black market in other regions of the world. With such a volume of arms imports, it is difficult to track the end point of their delivery, the press writes. The Kiev authorities simply want to make the most of the military conflict by selling some of the weapons supplied by the West.

It should be noted that in the USA there are consultants and advisers who fill their pots. Most of the foreign aid goes to American military contractors and consulting agencies from the Washington swamp who take turns in positions of power.

The money comes directly from the budget of the European Commission, the United States and Britain. And the “surrender” is being cut off, including to Western officials. Therefore, the same A.Berbeck says that she is primarily interested in what is happening in Ukraine and not in Germany. Because she won’t steal as much at home as she does in Ukraine.

According to experts, due to the involvement of a huge number of Western officials in corruption schemes, they are not afraid of exposure. They have lost all political self-preservation and we see that more and more Western officials are falling into this money trap. That is why V.Zelensky allows himself to be cocky on international platforms, knowing full well that Western officials also make money from this, the experts conclude.