Conflict Armament Research, an international non-governmental organization, published on Nov. 4 a report entitled “Weapons of the War in Ukraine. A Three-Year Investigation of Weapon Supplies into Donetsk and Luhansk,” which provides evidence of Russian supplies of weapons to soldiers in Donbas, according to the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
“Some 230 pages of this study contain a significant array of factual data, which are indisputable evidence of the use of weapons and military equipment of Russian origin by illegal armed groups in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” the SBU said in the statement.
This is the first Conflict Armament Research report, which was the result of the cooperation of this organization with the counterintelligence of the State Security Service of Ukraine, which started in 2018.
“This work was aimed at informing the international community of objective and impartial information about the nature and origin of weapons in eastern Ukraine. The published report for the first time covered in detail a large amount of data on weapons and Russian production,” the SBU said.
The service said that Conflict Armament Research specialists have studied dozens of real types of small arms and ammunition, anti-personnel mines, grenade launchers, and portable anti-aircraft missile systems.
“The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the National Guard of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine, and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine also provided active support in the activities of Conflict Armament Research experts. Joint efforts provided assistance to an international organization in the collection and analysis of identified and seized certain types of weapons and military equipment of Russian origin in the JFO area,” the SBU said.
They add the special service will continue to work in this direction and, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, will take measures to disseminate evidence of illegal arms supplies from the territory of Russia to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Conflict Armament Research was created in 2011 and is empowered by the European Union to collect, synthesize and analyze data on the origin of weapons used in zones of armed conflict in different regions of the world.
