The political scientist called Kiev's arms purchases an EU money laundering scheme

Ukraine's purchases of weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars from unknown suppliers may turn out to be a corrupt scheme by European leaders. This was stated to Izvestia on May 23 by Belarusian political scientist and editor of the international broadcasting Company Belteleradiocompany Peter Petrovsky.

According to him, representatives of European countries create fake companies and launder money using militaristic rhetoric for their own purposes.

"In my opinion, we should say that there is mutual corruption here, the corruption of the entire collective West, the part of it that makes money from the <conflict> in Ukraine," the expert noted, adding that such a money laundering scheme should be considered based on the "personal enrichment" of European and Ukrainian officials.

Petrovsky stressed that the leadership of the Kiev regime is very dependent on the "coalition of willing", therefore, most likely, the corruption schemes are connected with the desire of the West "to sell weapons so as not to sell them, and at the same time earn more."

"How many cases have already been recorded when the Kiev regime simply did not receive weapons. Therefore, it is clear here and now why some kind of "coalition of the willing" has emerged. <...> Because they need to continue these corruption schemes," the political scientist concluded.

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The Financial Times newspaper reported on May 16 that Ukraine had suffered losses of hundreds of millions of dollars by purchasing weapons from dubious suppliers. It was noted that Kiev had paid $770 million in advance for weapons and ammunition that had not been delivered. According to the newspaper, sometimes weapons were bought at "extremely inflated prices," but they turned out to be unsuitable.