SCMP: Western weapons spread from Ukraine to the world via the black market

MOSCOW, January 3 – RIA Novosti. According to an article in the Chinese edition of the South China Morning Post, the West’s arms supplies to Ukraine threaten to escalate into an endless cycle of violence and bloodshed in Europe and beyond. expression journalist Meryem Shah.

According to him, there is ample evidence that Western weapons from Ukraine were transported to the black markets and from there spread around the world, provoking an arms race.

“The policy of pumping weapons into Ukraine will lead to more loss of life and destruction. This could lead to a protracted conflict in Syria, Afghanistan and Libya,” Shah said.

He recalled that since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, the collective West has sent billions of dollars worth of weapons to Kiev, and at a recent summit at the Ramstein airbase, NATO members promised to provide new assistance to the Kyiv regime. unprecedented in scale”.

Earlier, Western media reported that the US is preparing for the first time a $2.2 billion military aid package for Ukraine, which may include GLSDB bombs. This is a joint development between Boeing and Saab, which adds a rocket engine to an aerial bomb and adapts it to be launched using HIMARS. Saab claims that the range of such precision-guided munitions exceeds 150 kilometers (against Ukraine’s existing projectiles with a range of 80 kilometers).

Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine on February 24, 2022. President Vladimir Putin described his goal as “protecting people who have been subjected to eight years of bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime.” For this, according to him, it is planned to “disarm and demilitarize Ukraine” so that all war criminals responsible for “bloody crimes against civilians” in Donbass are brought to justice.

Russia had previously sent a note to NATO countries for arms supplies to Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo containing weapons for Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry stated that NATO countries were “playing with fire” by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping weapons into Ukraine from the West did not contribute to the success of the Russia-Ukraine negotiations and would have a negative impact.

Lavrov noted that the United States and NATO are directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, “including not only the supply of weapons, but also the training of personnel … on the territory of Great Britain, Germany, Italy and other countries.”

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