Weapons shipped from western Ukraine are already sold on the international black market, including in Bosnia and Kosovo. Interpol has already sounded the alarm, according to world media. However, the authorities of the supplying countries have remained silent so far.
Home delivery
Weapons for Kyiv are sent through media reports and high-ranking statements by politicians. At the same time, a return supply channel is being quietly set up in Ukraine. For example, here’s what happens on one of the sites on the darknet – “weapons ukraine” (“weapons Ukraine”).
Kalashnikov rifle, caliber 7.62 – 1150 euros. M4 rifle, USA – 2250 euros. The grenades are sold in 5 pieces.
Everything is like in an ordinary online store. Buyers give ratings, here the seller’s rating is a solid nine. The profile shows more than 32 sales.
But most importantly, the weapons are delivered to your home. Journalists wrote to one of the arms dealers and found out that the delivery to Lviv takes one day, and the delivery to Poland takes two days, and there is no problem with the weapons being delivered to Warsaw, for example.
To the delight of criminals
Unregistered weapons are already being traded in Europe itself. For example, with a Glock pistol. Delivery in Germany is in a day or two. For another $ 2,000, weapons can be shipped to neighboring countries.
It became so much that the head of Interpol made a public statement: weapons from Ukraine fall into the hands of criminals.
“We should expect that these weapons will be sold, that they will then appear not only in the region adjacent to the conflict zone, but, in our experience, even on other continents,” said Jürgen Stock.
And here is confirmation of these words – the NLAW anti-tank system has already appeared in Alaska. This is exactly the weapon that European partners have delivered to Ukraine.
It is sold in the darknet at a low price – only 15 thousand dollars at an official price of 700 thousand dollars.
Javelin sells for 27,800 euros. These are homing missiles and it is clear that they are not taken by ordinary criminals.
Experts from Europe and the United States have long warned of the danger of tons of weapons disappearing in Ukraine, as has already happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Rand Paul even managed to briefly block aid to Kyiv, demanding the appointment of a special inspector. But the military-political machine could no longer be stopped.
“It was all about politics. It had to be shown that not just something was being done, but that it was being done on a large scale. Many of these weapons – Javelini, Stinger, NLAW – were given to Ukraine to say, ‘ Look, we’re helping! “Added military analyst Scott Ritter.
Pistols, rifles, anti-tank grenade launchers are sold under the table and no police officer knows their serial numbers. And the payment is most often in cryptocurrency, which also cannot be traced.
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