Europe’s concern has gone beyond the issue of foreign fighters in Ukraine to the massive weapons that Western countries have sent to that country for fear of being smuggled there.
At the start of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced the formation of what he described as the “International Legion,” whose mission was to recruit foreign fighters willing to fight alongside his forces in the war against Russia.
Russia, on the other hand, considers these fighters merely “mercenaries” and insists that the laws of war do not apply to them.
Observers have warned of the dangers of this, as it would cause arms chaos in Ukraine and the fighters could gain military experience that would threaten European countries upon their return, as with foreign militias. It happened that they traveled to Afghanistan and Syria in Afghanistan and Syria. the past
Now, Europe’s concern is focused on advanced weapons that the West won’t stop sending to Ukraine because they could fall into the wrong hands.
The source of concern here is the lack of a mechanism to explain the location of these weapons.
US officials have said they have no means of tracking the weapons they send to Ukraine after they are delivered at the Polish border.
According to the US National Interest website, which specializes in military and strategic affairs, about Czech Defense Minister Jana Chernokhova, she admitted that arms smuggling from Ukraine is inevitable.
“Arms trafficking is difficult to avoid because we couldn’t prevent it in the former Yugoslavia and we probably won’t prevent it in Ukraine,” Chernokhova said.
According to the British, in the face of this imminent danger, many “NATO” countries have contacted Kyiv to, as part of the Western aid packages to counter the Russian attack, a system to track the weapons that are in unprecedented numbers. It is time to launch. The Financial Times quoted officials familiar with these calls.
In this context, a source told the British newspaper “The Times” that the Ukrainian government is currently working to equip the tracking system with the help of Western countries.
All the weapons arrive in southern Poland, from there they are transported to the border, where they are disassembled and placed in large and small trucks and sometimes in private cars to be taken to Ukraine, an official said.
He added: After that moment, the West does not know the location of these weapons, “and where the Ukrainians go with them, whether they use them or not, or whether they stay inside that country or not.”
Source: Lebanon Debate
