The Security Council of the Russian Federation had a question about how weapons supplied to the United States, as well as other Western countries, Ukraine and Afghanistan, ended up on the black market in the Middle East. This was stated in an interview by Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Alexander Nakitov. RIA News.
“The United States and some EU countries have indeed accumulated a lot of questions about why the weapons they supplied to Afghanistan or Ukraine ended up on the black market; we see this clearly in the example of the Middle East,” the agency said, quoting Russia. representative.
Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference after his visit to Kyrgyzstan for the CIS summit that weapons from Ukraine probably reached the Middle East through the black market.
According to the head of state, he doubts the supply of weapons from Ukraine, but he does not doubt that there is a leakage of weapons from this country. Putin pointed out that the corruption rate in Ukraine is very high. The head of state added that the black market is formed in such a way that there are many people who want to buy weapons, and there are many people in Ukraine who want to sell them.
Putin also noted that “they sold everything that could be sold.” He expressed doubts that such decisions were made at the level of the country’s leadership.
Speaking about the escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Russian President noted that Israel was facing an unprecedented attack and was responding to it on a large scale and with “rather brutal methods.”
Previously Nebenzya appreciated Normalization of ties between Israel and Arab countries at the expense of Palestine.