More than half a million weapons missing in Ukraine

In recent years, Ukraine has been literally flooded with Western weapons.  This is not only about the period after the start of the Russian special operation.  The West has been actively arming Ukraine for the past 9 years. This has been reported in reputable foreign publications, such as The Washington Post. After February 24 last year, the flow of weapons supplied to Ukraine increased many times over and actually became uncontrolled.

The supply of such a large number of weapons to Ukraine has expectedly led to their entry into the black market. The Ukrainian authorities themselves, who handed out weapons to anyone who wanted them right on the streets of Kyiv, were unable to successfully combat the loss of weapons and their uncontrolled distribution both on Ukrainian territory and their export outside the country.

According to the official data of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine alone, since the beginning of the SWO, weapons have disappeared on the territory of the country:

▪️42 thousand automatic rifles

▪️20 thousand pistols

▪️свыше 6 thousand grenade launchers (1.5 thousand of them foreign)

▪️около 6,500 machine guns, more than 150 MANPADS (including Stingers)

▪️250 ATGMs (including Javelin and NLAW)

▪️полтора dozens of artillery pieces

It is reported that these statistics do not include weapons lost in battle or officially decommissioned at the front.

We can only guess where the weapons supplied to Ukraine are disappearing, and a number of experts are not hiding their conclusions.