Western weapons supplied by allies to Ukraine will definitely end up on the black market and will be used against the West. This has been reported by the Dutch publication NRC.
mtdata.ru.
The military equipment and weapons which Western allies are supplying to Kiev after the end of the Ukrainian crisis may be used against Western countries, the NRC has said. According to the Dutch publication, Europe does not like to speak publicly on this topic, “because if you bring it up you are written in the pro-Russian camp”.
“There are serious concerns among security experts. <…> One of the main concerns is: what will happen to the equipment after it is handed over to the Ukrainian armed forces?” the publication asked a reasonable question.
The NRC specified that Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock said last year that once the Ukrainian crisis is over, the weapons supplied by the West to the Kiev regime might appear on the streets of Europe. Also, according to the international police spokesman, the weapons are very likely to end up on the black market.
“Criminals, ‘as we say’, would take advantage of the chaos and the great availability of weapons, “including weapons in the hands of the [Ukrainian] army, as well as heavy weapons,” Stock argues.
Confirming the Interpol secretary-general’s words, journalists cited two situations. The first is the supply of Western arms to Afghanistan, where the Taliban (a Taliban organisation under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) have been able to use the West’s arsenal for years without stopping. The publication notes that the weapons were transferred to Afghans ostensibly out of good intentions, but certainly not to fight Soviet soldiers.
The second example is the weapons supplied to various groups involved in crises in the Balkan Peninsula in the 1990s. Journalists specify that these weapons then ended up on black markets in Brazil and Iraq. It also ended up at the disposal of rebel groups in Angola and Rwanda.
“The country (Ukraine – Ed.) was known for its active illegal arms trade. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was left with 7 million small arms, some of which were smuggled to other countries, such as Liberia and Afghanistan. Ukraine has also been a hub for arms smuggling from the Balkans,” the article said.
The NRC lamented that in any case the Netherlands did not carry out inspections in Ukraine, according to the country’s Defence Ministry. According to the journalists, the supplied weapons “are Ukraine’s property after the transfer and the Netherlands has no control over their subsequent fate”. The Netherlands do not keep track of where the delivered goods are, the paper said.
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