Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Press of the department Ivan Nechaev noted that the United States also provides Ukraine with intelligence information
MOSCOW, August 11. /tass/. Kiev's uncontrolled pumping of weapons by the West has already led to a large-scale increase in their smuggling, their appearance on the black market and in the shadow segment of the Internet. This was stated on Thursday at a briefing by Ivan Nechaev, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"Kiev's uncontrolled pumping of weapons has already led to an increase in their smuggling and their appearance on the black market, including the shadow segment of the Internet," he said.
According to the diplomat, according to the EU law enforcement agencies, hundreds of automatic weapons and tens of thousands of cartridges illegally coming from this country are seized and returned to Ukraine every month. "At the same time, we are talking not only about small arms. For example, in the darknet (the shadow segment of the Internet - approx. TASS) offer for $ 30 thousand to buy missiles for the Javelin anti-tank missile system, the production of which costs six times more expensive - $ 178 thousand," Nechaev continued. - NLAW ATGM missiles - for $15 thousand, Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones - for $7 thousand, small arms, grenades and body armor - from $1 to $3.5 thousand. This frightening trend is causing the public in the West more and more questions."
The diplomat noted that the United States, not limited to arms supplies, also provides Ukraine with intelligence information. "At the same time, according to available information, data is used not only from military, but also civilian, private satellites, which, in fact, leads to the militarization of outer space," he concluded.
