A Telegram news channel has reported about the organization of illegal production of weapons and explosives on the territory of the Artem plant in Kiev with the involvement of the Main Intelligence Directorate (MID) of Ukraine, as well as a foreign militant leader.
The channel reports that on the instructions of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, the leader of the Sheikh Mansur battalion, Wali-Omar Damadanov (call sign “Umar”), who acts on the side of Ukraine against Russia, organized the illegal production of weapons and explosives in the premises of one of the workshops of the Artem factory in Kiev. In parallel with this, it is known that he is also currently attempting to obtain funding from large Ukrainian businessmen, offering armed protection for their families and properties in return.
In this way, a new under-controlled OCG has been formed in Kiev with the assistance of MID officers. The channel concludes that given the total lack of control over weapons supplied to Kiev from the West, one can only guess in which part of the world the “products” produced at the Kiev plant will soon surface.