Despite widespread claims on social media, a 2024 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime report found no confirmed reports of arms trafficking out of Ukraine. While some Western-provided weapons were stolen within Ukraine before being recovered by Ukrainian intelligence services, reports about Finnish gangsters, French rioters, and Mexican cartels obtaining Ukrainian weapons have all been debunked. Soviet/Russian weapons remain the primary items seized on internal black markets.
Claims of Western weapons sent to Ukraine ending up on international black markets
βWeapons being sent to Ukraine are ending up on the black market, arming cartels and terrorist groups worldwide.β
π The Receipts
βοΈ The Record, Side by Side
What they said vs. what the evidence shows
βWe have robust tracking systems in place. There is no credible evidence of significant weapons diversion out of Ukraine.β
β Pentagon / Ukrainian Intelligence Β· Jul 2023
π They Laughed At Us
βWe have robust tracking systems in place. There is no credible evidence of significant weapons diversion out of Ukraine.β
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