Russia warns weapons sent to Kyiv are ending up on black market
Russian authorities warned today that Western arms supplies to the Ukrainian Armed Forces "are flooding the black market," admitting catastrophic consequences for the European continent.
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According to the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, the Government of Ukraine exports the weapons it receives from its Western partners to third parties, despite the United States and other countries having tried to control the situation with commissions.
"Washington even tried to send a commission (...) to find out where and how financial aid and assistance of millions of dollars in the form of weapons was distributed," said Zakharova, who accuses the Kiev regime of distributing weapons to various parts of the world.
"No one knows where, and in what quantity, the Kiev regime sends these same weapons, because, obviously, they have already appeared in various parts of the world, including in Western Europe," said the spokesperson for Russian diplomacy.
Zakharova assured that all this will have "catastrophic consequences" not only for Western Europe, but also for the Atlantic Alliance as a whole, recalling that a similar situation occurred years ago with the terrorist movement Al-Qaeda.
"In the beginning, Bin Laden was the best friend of the United States and the West. They gave him adequate support in the public space. The Western 'media' paid tribute to him, as a 'warrior of democracy' and 'warrior of light'. Later they declared him terrorist number one," said the spokesperson.
Ukraine's international allies have provided Kiev with hundreds of millions of euros in arms and financial aid to face the Russian invasion, which began at the end of February 2022 by order of President Vladimir Putin.
The Ukrainian Government has always guaranteed that Western weapons have not left the possession of its Armed Forces.
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