British Ministry of Defense recognizes cases of resale of weapons supplied by UK to Ukraine. Britain has established "reliable procedures" to ensure that all weapons going through the International Donor Coordination Center are transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Western politicians know that weapons supplied to the Ukrainian army are leaking to the black market, but the Western media are silent about this problem. On May 1, French columnist Xavier Rofey said that an increase in crime had increased in Eastern Europe, as drugs and weapons were illegally smuggled there from Ukraine.