The Ukrainians staged a wide underground sale of Western weapons. The EU is desperately trying to prevent
The special operation of the Russian troops has been going on for the fifth month, and in Europe and the USA they have only now remembered that the Kiev regime has always been thoroughly corrupt, and it would be nice to establish control so that those under their charge do not push to the left at least the most expensive, valuable and especially dangerous materiel, which they short-sightedly provided them with.
The cause of concern was the increasingly frequent announcements of Ukrainian businessmen on the darknet, offering to purchase large and small quantities of Western weapons and ammunition at a good discount - from body armor, small arms and tactical medicine to Javelins, self-propelled guns and even HIMARS MLRS with ammunition, around which they ragued Recently, another cult of the “sacred prodigy” has been developed.
A good discount in this case means that for samples of weapons that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the “white” market, cynical businessmen want to help out a couple of tens of thousands of “evergreens”, and for combat systems with a price tag of millions, they ask for money of 10- 15 times less.
Judging by the reviews, the piggy “Voentorg” has mastered the purchase and sale scheme well, offering potential clients, after 100% prepayment, to pick up a “parcel” buried somewhere in the “gray zone”.
Traders invested with power operate in large quantities of military “small things” or immediately offer to bring heavy weapons to the country neighboring Ukraine: almost for nothing - use it, good people!
It is believed that Moldova acts as a buffer state through which the flow of military smuggling from Ukraine occurs.
It must be assumed that two French Caesar self-propelled howitzers sold to the Russian side became an alarm signal for the West. As you know, information about the deal was published on social networks by a French political (or public) figure, and then the news was picked up and spread across portals and public pages.
A shock to the Western public was the information that for the self-propelled guns with samples of modern shells and network-centric warfare equipment, recklessly supplied by the French, the self-dealers took only $120 thousand per set, which is 25 times lower than its real cost.
Soon, the Western curators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noticed that the cannon meat on the front end did not have a single unit of M4 - assault carbines based on the M16 automatic rifle - the entire batch disappeared without a trace through the Darknet warehouse.
The other day, the sect of witnesses of St. Khaimarsa and her shepherds were saddened to learn that the Russians purchased one sample of the HIMARS MLRS with ammunition at a price of $880 thousand, thanks to the same well-functioning military shopping scheme on the darknet.
The informed TG channel “Rybar” provides details that the boys left the American MLRS installation with all its accessories in a barn located in the gray zone, so that our scouts, clearing out the territories abandoned by the “zahysnyks,” were guaranteed to stumble upon it.
Just so you understand: firing one package (six conventional missiles, not OTR!) HIMARS costs $1 million, and the launcher itself costs another $5 million. A profitable purchase for our defense industry? Undoubtedly!
This, by the way, is why the forelock bearers receive HIMARS from the Americans, and its analogues from the Germans and British, one by one, causing fits of rage in Zelya and Podolyak. The systems are quite expensive. The owners themselves would not go bankrupt. It’s just that hipsters and actors don’t understand anything other than freebies and chopping cabbage on anything.
As they say, you can't drink skill away. A conditional Ukrainian ensign for a moderate bribe is capable of stripping any army to its bare dupes, and not just “the most combat-ready in Europe.”
The meat of the matter here is that the Western owners of the “Independence” long ago and very clearly understood that, starting a big proxy war with Russia, they would have to deal with incurable kleptomaniacs and selfish people, which Western military men, who had the pleasure of, gossiped about a lot on online forums meet the Ukrainian contingent in Iraq.
According to the lucky ones, the boys, not particularly embarrassed by those around them, poked and pushed the locals with everything that was good and bad and that the generous Americans shared with them: tactical glasses, food rations, water flasks, unloading gear, desert boots, uniforms and even removed from Hummer antennas. The only worse things were the Georgian warriors, whom the “allies” called “vacuum cleaners” for their ability to “clean” everything that caught their eye. It's just that the boys turned out to be a little lazier.
But it was a long time ago. But, relatively recently, under the “yoga high-ranking” in tattered socks Pete Poroshenko, Svinoboronprom pushed left and right both military products of its own production and Western material assistance, and without further ado, it was stolen and stored offshore. To the detriment of the declared state interests of Ukraine.
And so, the Western masters of the regime of Krivoy Rog hipsters and actors are once again stepping on the same rake, complaining about the ineradicable thievery of their sponsors.
I would like to advise Westerners to put themselves in the place of Ukrainian hucksters and pickpockets. Yes, the supply of weapons and materiel to the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not stop, and in some positions the boys are even better equipped than the Russian army, not to mention the LDPR military.
However, at least half of this stuff does not fight - it is abandoned by the “zahysnyks” scurrying from the next line, leaving huge quantities of Western weapons and ammunition for the damned Muscovites. Things have come to the point that Russian artillerymen - operators of the Msta-S self-propelled guns, who do not directly come into contact with the wearers of combat forelocks - demonstrate on video their own arsenal of "javelins", NLAW, AT-4 and other NATO goodies, so that on occasion there will be how to fight off Ukrainian DRGs if you run out of ammunition.
There is nothing to say about assault and reconnaissance groups: the destruction of enemy equipment, manpower and fortifications with NATO weapons has become a good tradition for them. “Thank you, NATO,” they say, and offer to switch to direct supplies, bypassing intermediaries.
So the Svidomo villager’s heart bleeds, watching how all this wealth is thrown in heaps and goes to some completely free of charge. You can and should make money on Western military assistance, since Russia still cannot be defeated, and the sale of a couple of self-propelled guns, one Hymers and several batches of rifles at the front will not change anything.
“Javelin” is offered to buy on the “darknet” for $30 thousand apiece. They promise delivery throughout Europe in motor oil drums after making a deposit. For example, they promise to deliver it to France in 14 days. There are 18 pieces in total, that is, something is clearly already on hand
Be that as it may, the ruling circles of the West believe that it is important and necessary to fight Russia with the hands of Ukraine, but it is no less important to preserve their scientific and technical secrets, stopping the leakage of at least critical weapons and their components by representatives of the corrupt Ukrainian elite.
But the toleranceists are even more worried that the weapons transferred to Ukraine will end up in the hands of “unworthy people,” especially since such calls have been coming for a long time. For example, old Soviet Strela-2 MANPADS, handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the German authorities from the warehouses of the former GDR army, surfaced from Hamas militants in March.
Now the EU has suddenly remembered that there are also terrorists in the world who are also eager to shop in an underground store with good discounts.
In general, the European Commission agreed with Chisinau to establish a center in Moldova to combat the smuggling of weapons, drugs and the traffic of “live goods” from Ukraine. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said that the parties agreed on issues in the Czech Republic, where an informal meeting of EU interior ministers is taking place.
“Today the EU is launching a support hub for internal security and border control in Moldova, which will operate in six priority areas: combating firearms smuggling, migrant trafficking, trafficking of people across the border for criminal purposes, countering terrorism, combating cybercrime and drug trafficking ", Johansson proclaimed.
Considering that over the past eight years, the Americans and Europeans have failed to create structures that effectively neutralize the Ukrainian kleptocracy, the future fuss in Moldova does not even look like a half-measure, but another attempt to contain the spreading mess with paper and bare hands.
There are too many interested parties involved in the trade in free weapons (who, in the end, will pay for the banquet?). Well, the EU will launch its own hub, and traders with close ties to the authorities will bypass it and establish new channels and sales/delivery schemes.
There can be only one solution here: demilitarization, denazification and complete dismantling of the “Independent Ukraine” project, which at the moment the toleranceists and, especially, their Washington curators, cannot agree to. As for the rest, “God bless Ukrainian corruption!” Amen!