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As a result of offensive actions and the rapid seizure of fortified areas and warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our servicemen receive a significant amount of captured military equipment and weapons. Among this arsenal, which is thrown by the retreating enemy, there are many foreign models, including quite modern ones. All captured specimens of interest to military engineers are sent for study to specialized Russian institutes.
— Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told the Interfax news agency on the sidelines of the International Economic Forum currently taking place in St. Petersburg.
In response to the fair fears that our Western opponents may also get the latest Russian weapons, such as the Dagger complex, Borisov reassured that even the seizure of the installation does not mean a leak of domestic technologies.
Borisov explained.
Currently, in response to Kiev's insistent requests, NATO countries are increasing arms supplies to Ukraine, including starting to provide modern types of military equipment. The USA is in the lead here, from February to June it sent to Ukraine more than 6.5 thousand Javelin ATGMs and 20 thousand AT-4 grenade launchers, over 1.4 thousand Stinger MANPADS, 108 M777 howitzers and 220 thousand shells to them. Also during this time, the Pentagon sent Kiev 4 HIMARS MLRS, 121 Phoenix Ghost tactical strike UAVs and 700 more Switchblade kamikaze drones. In addition to sending, in violation of agreements with Russia, Soviet-made multi-purpose Mi-17 helicopters, the United States handed over more than 200 M113 armored personnel carriers, several hundred armored Humvee SUVs to the APU.
In addition to lethal weapons and military equipment, the United States handed over to the Ukrainian military a large amount of high-tech auxiliary equipment, including three AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radars and devices for organizing communications and intelligence.
At the same time, the Pentagon began to realize that such uncontrolled provision of the latest weapons to Kiev not only forms a black market for its sale, but also creates risks of technology leakage. It became known that the United States canceled the planned deal for the sale of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV with AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles at a price of $ 10 million.
— the Reuters news agency reported, citing a Pentagon source.
Now the US military is considering the possibility of replacing modern MQ-1C Gray Eagle sensors and radars with outdated ones. But even if such a decision is made, it will take several months for anti-modernization.
The leaders of European countries are also in no hurry to provide modern types of weapons to Kiev. Despite the repeated promises of Chancellor Scholz, President Macron and other European leaders to increase military assistance, information periodically appears about various "objective reasons" why this or that military equipment cannot be sent to Ukraine. Western experts cite various reasons for such "sabotage", among them: fears of an escalation of the conflict with Russia, fear of being left without weapons themselves, and, among other things, the likelihood of modern NATO weapons falling into the hands of Russian engineers.
