Although the leftist-liberal mainstream media is trying to deny or downplay it, there is a real danger confirmed by a growing number of national and international bodies that some of the weapons sent to Ukraine could have been diverted to the black market.

The weapons sent to Ukraine are appearing on the black market, said Pulitzer prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh to the Russian RT news channel in an interview, which was reviewed by the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet.

“Even at an early stage of the conflict, Poland, Romania and other neighbouring countries were overrun with the weapons we supplied to Ukraine for the war,”

the journalist stated, adding that various subordinate commanders received shipments of weapons and resold or disposed of them on the black market. He also said that fears that they could be resold in the West emerged only months later.

Wesley Satterwhite, a former US State Department adviser, had earlier called on the United States to establish effective control over weapons supplied to Ukraine to prevent them from entering the black market.

Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, said that the weapons supplied to Ukraine originated from organised crime in EU countries, writes Magyar Nemzet.

AsV 4NA has already reported in several articles, it is almost inevitable that a significant part of the Western weapons originally intended for Ukraine will end up on the black market. We recently contacted Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation after Detective Superintendent Christer Ahlgren said on a programme that there is a strong suspicion that weapons destined for Ukraine have already appeared in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, and that the necessary smuggling routes have also been established. In addition, there is a risk of the illegal arms trade rearing its head in Finland, he pointed out. Following our inquiry, the National Bureau of Investigation responded in a press release, stressing that

“there is a possibility that criminals operating in Finland are trying to obtain weapons from conflict zones,”

the statement reads. NATO and the EU have also previously issued warnings about arms smuggling in Ukraine.