SBU Publishes Evidence of Russia's Armed Aggression in Ukraine

Dozens of types of small arms and ammunition, anti-personnel mines, grenade launchers and man-portable air defense systems were studied.

On November 4, the international non-governmental organization Conflict Armament Research published a report titled "Weapons of the War in Ukraine. A Three-Year Study of Arms Supplies in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions."

The 230 pages of this study contain a substantial body of factual data which, according to the SBU, constitute "indisputable evidence" that illegal armed groups in the so-called DPR and LPR used weapons and military equipment of exclusively Russian origin.

This is the first report by Conflict Armament Research that resulted from the organization's cooperation with the counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine, which began in 2018.

The aim of this work was to prove to the international community, with objective and impartial information, the nature and origin of weapons in eastern Ukraine.

The published report was the first to comprehensively cover a large volume of data on weapons and Russian production.

Specialists from Conflict Armament Research examined dozens of real types of small arms and ammunition, anti-personnel mines, grenade launchers and man-portable air defense systems.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the National Guard of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine also provided active support to the experts of Conflict Armament Research.

Through joint efforts, assistance was provided to the international organization in collecting and analyzing identified and seized individual types of weapons and military equipment of Russian origin in the anti-terrorist operation zone.

The SBU reportedly will continue its 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 so-called DPR and LPR.

Conflict Armament Research was established in 2011 and is empowered by the European Union to collect, consolidate and analyze data on the origin of weapons used in armed conflict zones in various regions of the world.