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by tobltobs 1400 days ago
Your first link only says that at the beginning it was only 30%, which isn't a too big surprise considering the chaos at this time and it is talking about non lethal weapons only anyway.

"Jonas Ohman is founder and CEO of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with non-lethal military aid in Ukraine since the start of the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in 2014. Back in April, he estimated that just "30-40%" of the supplies coming across the border reached its final destination. But he says the situation has significantly improved since then and a much larger quantity now gets where it's supposed to go."
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0xy 1400 days ago
That statement doesn't say he's referring to non-lethal weapons, nor does the article say that. Additionally, the bulk of the weapons were sent prior to the "improvements".

So, where's the $16,000,000,000 in weapons that vanished? Do you even know how many weapons that is? Operation Fast and Furious was only 2,000 firearms. This is a far bigger deal.

The US' Brigadier General arrived in August for auditing - this month! So everything was just getting stolen before now?

Pentagon officials have no faith that the US is keeping tabs on the weapons, from another US source. [1]

It's a bit laughable anyone could defend Ukraine politicians, given all the graft. Most recently, the wife of a former politician tried to flee with $28m in cash in suitcases. Totally legit I'm sure. [2]

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/02/congress-pentagon-u...

[2] https://nationalpost.com/news/world/wife-of-former-ukrainian...

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pawsforthought 1400 days ago
Just to add to this, Interpol’s Secretary General, Jürgen Stock, warned of this early on in the war [1]:

“We can expect an influx of weapons in Europe and beyond. We should be alarmed and we have to expect these weapons to be trafficked not only to neighbouring countries but to other continents.”

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/ukraine-weapon...

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_kbh_ 1400 days ago
It seems like they aren't worried about it now more after the war.

> Jürgen Stock says once the conflict ends, a wave of guns and heavy arms will flood the international market and he urged Interpol’s member states, especially those supplying weapons, to cooperate on arms tracing.

Seems a bit disingenuous to suggest that the NATO secretary general thinks weapons are being trafficked now when thats not at all what they said.

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_kbh_ 1400 days ago
The organisation has put out a statement due to how CBS decided to frame their comments. In effect its not at all what it sounds like.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BlueYellowUKR/status/155598750045...

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