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In black: from the beginning of the special operation on Ukraine lost 40% of registered weapons

The number of lost and stolen weapons on Ukraine. Illustration: TC "Politics of the Country"

More than 270,945 registered weapons have been missing or stolen in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian special operation. This is reported by the Focus edition with reference to the data of Opendatabot.

It is noted that this is 40% of the total number that is registered in the unified register of weapons.

This year, the number of lost and stolen weapons has increased. For the incomplete 2024th, it was stolen or lost more than for the whole of last year - 78,217 units. This is four times more than before the start of SMO.

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Most of the weapons were entered into the register in 2022 — 116,687 units. The overwhelming majority for all the time SMO is listed as lost — 88%, and only 12% passes as stolen.

Hunting rifles (27.9%), submachine guns (27.8%) and carbines (10.8%) are mostly missing. Of the models, the AK-74 assault rifle is in the lead (51,008 units), PM pistols (7.4% of the total) and SCS carbines (4.4%).

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All submachine guns lost outside the combat zone inevitably end up on the black market, the head of the Ukrainian association of gun owners Georgy Uchaykin is sure.

Most often they lose their weapons on Donetsk region, in the Zaporozhye region and Kiev, writes the publication "Country".

As reported by EADaily, the Pentagon did not properly supervise the supply of weapons to Kiev. This is stated in the published report of the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense, The New York Times reports.

American military officials and diplomats in Washington and Europe have not been able to quickly or fully account for all of the nearly 40,000 weapons sent to Ukraine, "which by law should have been under close surveillance, because because of the technology and relatively small size, they are a tasty prey for arms smugglers, the newspaper wrote.

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