Why Sending Anti-Tank Weapons To Ukraine May End Badly
An arms cache recovered in Eastern Ukraine. Many such caches were hidden by volunteer units and mayAs the Small Arms Survey notes, the problem is not just a historic one involving outdated equipment. In a case in 2019, two Ukrainian soldiers attempted to sell a collection of weapons including 15 RPG-22 rockets for just 75,000 Ukrainian hryvnia — around $2,900. In 2020 a member of the Ukrainian armed forces in Odessa stole several items including grenades and anti-tank mines., supplied by the U.
Of course the NLAWs and other Western gear are likely to go to elite units and be closely supervised wherever they are sent. But warfare is a messy and uncertain business. Any item worth upwards of $25,000 that can easily be stashed in the back of a car presents a particular risk when there is a ready market., “many of the arms now in the control of non-state groups in Ukraine fall into the hands of organized crime groups selling arms to the Middle East, often through Odessa.
That would be a worst-case scenario, but there are certainly precedents. In the 1980s, the U.S. supplied Stinger portable surface-to-air missiles to
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