Ukrainian military ammunition depot. Archival photo SEVASTOPOL, May 7. A large percentage of weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine are not suitable for use, Yan Gagin, adviser to the head of the DPR government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «Most of the military equipment, ammunition of various systems that transferred, moreover, on a non-gratuitous basis to Ukraine by European partners, this is junk, these are, say, some products that are either expired, or they were not properly serviced, or they were not stored in the right conditions, but the percentage of operation there is small» «And it's hard to say whether these are unskilled fighters who tried to use this equipment, or whether this is really the disposal of old arsenals by Europe simply under the guise of almost humanitarian, I will say, again, paid assistance to Ukraine,» Gagin emphasized. The Russian Foreign Ministry has previously stated that NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect.
