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In Bremen, Germany, police detained Ukrainians who were selling weapons supplied to Kiev by Western partners through an online store. In particular, man-portable air defense missile systems (MANPADS) manufactured by the United States Stinger.
The Internet site was found by a local student who helped law enforcement officers to identify the fact of arms trafficking. Local media reported that it was intended for a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region. However, it was stolen and transported for sale on the black markets of Europe and the Middle East The East. Presumably, the clients of the Ukrainian merchants were mafiosi from all over the world.
Journalists from Hamburg and other German cities have launched their own investigation into what happened.
Earlier, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, accused Kiev of arranging the supply of Western weapons to the global black market. He recalled that the United States recognized the inability to track the end user of weapons supplied to Ukrainian militants.