# Smuggled Western arms from Ukraine end up in Africa, Middle East — Russian envoy

https://mins.news/en/item/70549

- TASS, 2026-09-23 12:04 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2191625

> Yulia Zhdanova, head of Russia’s delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said contraband Western weapons from Ukraine had been found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Somalia, Sudan and the Central African Republic. She said the equipment was shipped by sea through port facilities in Ukraine’s Odesa region to Africa and the Middle East.

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