A crate of mortar rounds in the Armed Forces warehouse. File photoBAGHDAD, May 15.Weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western countries may end up in the hands of terrorists or lead to the emergence of new terrorist organizations, Iraqi security experts told RIA Novosti. weapons «add fuel to the fire», these supplies can lead to the strengthening of terrorist groups such as the «Islamic state» *. As an example, the interlocutor of the agency cited the events of 2014, when IS *, which by that time had captured cities in the north and west of Iraq, took possession of a large amount of American military equipment and weapons left at military bases.
"American weapons currently being supplied to Ukraine are very likely to be smuggled to extremists, whether in Ukraine or outside of it, or to terrorist groups, including IS*, in order to arm them or create new organizations with by other names", — said at-Tayi.
Another Iraqi military expert, Jalil Khalaf, noted that the weapons supplied by the US to Ukraine are «a danger that will threaten the entire world.» America has sent Ukraine a lot of weapons and so-called neo-Nazi volunteers. The very fact of this poses a great danger not only to these countries, but also for the whole world, because no one excludes that extremists or even IS* can get these weapons,» he said.The expert estimated the cost of supplying American weapons to UkraineRussia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. At the end of 2017, the Iraqi authorities announced victory over the terrorist group «Islamic State» *, however, the Iraqi army, with the support of units of the people's militia and the international coalition, continues to clean up from militants and operations to identify «sleeping cells» of terrorist groups in certain areas. *The organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia