Sputnik reported yesterday that investigative journalist Seymour Hersh told Russian media that the West knows the weapons they deliver to Ukraine are being sold on the black market, something mainstream media has tried to hush up. He said that he had not written about the topic but he “obviously heard about it.” Hersh added that “very early, Poland, Romania, [and] other countries on the border were being flooded with weapons we’d been shipping for the war to Ukraine,” where the Russian special military operation is underway. “In other words, commanders of various … levels—often they were generals or colonels and others—were given with shipments of some weapons [and] personally [they] re-sold or retailed them back to the black or dark market,” the Pulitzer Prize-winner stressed.
Sputnik adds that Hersh spoke after Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov told reporters that Moscow has “serious concerns” that part of U.S. military supplies to Ukraine will end up on the black market. “Where will weapons pop up? Who will bear responsibility when the matériel falls into the hands of some terrorist groups and criminal organizations?” Antonov said recently, adding that such a policy jeopardizes the security of the entire Europe region and increases the risk of a direct clash between Russia and NATO.
