MADRID, 31 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior has denied this Monday the statements of the police authorities about their suspicions that some of the weapons that their partners have been delivering to face the Russian invasion have ended up in the hands of criminal organizations operating in places like Sweden, the Netherlands, or Denmark.
“Kremlin propagandists provoke the creation of dangerous myths and fictions about the processes that take place in Ukraine,” the Ministry of the Interior began its statement to deny the statements of one of the heads of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Christer Ahlgren.
kyiv has disfigured a piece of news published by the Finnish public broadcaster Yle in which Ahlgren is quoted as saying that they have information that some of the weapons that have been delivered to Ukraine since the start of the war now just over eight months, have ended up in the wrong hands.
“Weapons shipped to Ukraine have also been found in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands… We have seen signs that these weapons are already reaching Finland,” said Ahlgren, who while stressing the importance of these deliveries to fight against Russia, he has also warned that they will be dealing with all that weaponry “for decades”. “We will pay the price here,” she assured.
According to Ukraine, this media outlet is preparing a correction since part of the information presented in the article could have been “somewhat invented” by the journalist since the words attributed to the police representative interviewed would not correspond to the original ones.
In this sense, kyiv has explained that this “multi-channel” information is part of the attempts of the “regime” of Russian President Vladimir Putin to “tarnish the image of the Ukrainian state in the eyes of its partners.”
“They use the fruits of the work of foreign journalists using unverified sources, Internet rumours, illogical assumptions, opinions of experts affiliated with the pro-Russian forces,” the Ministry of the Interior has censored.
In the middle of the year, Europol warned that the proliferation and massive shipment of weapons to Ukraine due to the war with Russia could lead to an increase in firearms trafficking through established smuggling routes.
“This threat could be even greater once the conflict ends,” Europol warned. European authorities fear that Ukraine will repeat the case of the Balkans, where criminal organizations have used the territories of the former Yugoslavia as the main illegal markets for firearms due to the large deliveries of weapons that took place during that conflict.
