Afrasianet - Before Russia's private military mayor , Ukraine was the second most corrupt country in Europe, according to the 2021 Corruption Index by Transparency International.

This assessment came after hundreds of thousands of light weapons disappeared without a trace during the Donbas crisis in Ukraine in 2014 – most are believed to have ended up in the hands of the European mafia.

How military weapons sent as aid to Ukraine end up in the hands of the drug mafia and human trafficking in southern Spain

Military weapons sent from the West to Ukraine increasingly end up in the hands of the drug mafia in southern Spain.

This comes after Civil Guard officers were unable to seize a shipment of guns at the mouth of the Wadi el-Kabir River in Andalusia on May 22 after they were met with a wall of 5.56 caliber × 45mm bullets - the standard ammunition used by NATO forces.

It is just one of many incidents of drug gangs and human trafficking that use high-quality military weapons against police in the area.

One officer who spent years on the front lines of the anti-drug operation in Cádiz told Diario de Cádiz that his forces were facing increasingly dangerous situations.

"In 2021, Italian-made NATO rifles were seized in Sanlúcar and since then we have continued to see them.

"This time it was only possible to seize ammunition, but in other operations it was possible to seize American and European-made weapons that most likely entered the black market thanks to the war in Ukraine."

In Spain's latest annual national security report, the Ministry of Defense and the National Intelligence Center (CNI) warned that armed conflicts pose an important risk in the medium and long term, particularly with regard to increasing the availability of firearms and diverting them to the illicit firearms trade. The same report cites sources from Europol and Polisia Nacional.

In its strategic plan 2022-2025, the latter warned of the risk of increased arms smuggling reaching Ukraine.

In the fall of 2022 – months after the outbreak of war – Finland warned that thousands of weapons sent by the West to Ukraine to fight Russia end up on the black market.

Christer Algren, the country's head of the fight against organised crime, added that police in other European countries - such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands - confiscated assault rifles, pistols, grenades and even combat drones sent as part of European military aid.

The Finnish commissioner explained that the weapons leave Ukraine through previously created illegal smuggling routes - which are mostly used by fearsome gangs of motorcyclists.

Concern about the disappearance of weapons in Ukraine is so high that the United States has sent military teams to ensure the safety of its shipments.

The Civil Guard's Josel union warned that Spain had "lost the first battle against the drug trafficking mafia, the arms control battle."

The association said it was witnessing with grave concern "how Civil Guard officers are increasingly facing a response from the massive violence that is putting our lives at risk due to the use of weapons of war by criminal groups" that "control drug trafficking and migrants."

They added: "As civilian guards, we demand better means to counter this threat against the entire rule of law, better physical means and more personnel.

But we also ask for the support of other governmental organizations, such as the Navy, which have the readiness and infrastructure to face this serious looming threat against the security of all Spaniards."

The lack of monitoring required by U.S. officials means the U.S. cannot track more than $1 billion in weapons and military equipment provided to Ukraine to fight Russian forces, according to a Pentagon review.

The results mean that 59% of the $1.7 billion of defense equipment provided by the United States to Ukraine that was directed to protect against misuse or theft still stands.

 The report from the Department of Defense's inspector general's office, the Pentagon's watchdog, says the Defense Department has failed to maintain an accurate inventory of serial numbers of those defense items for Ukraine as required.

The reasons for the lack of monitoring included limited staff; The fact that the procedures for implementing end-use monitoring in a war zone were not put in place until December 2022; restrictions on the movement of observers within Ukraine; The report said that there are no internal controls on inventory.

While the United States has improved surveillance since the first year of the war,

"There are still significant staff constraints and accountability challenges," the auditors said. They said full accounting of equipment was impossible as long as such deficiencies remained.

The US administration is skeptical of continued support for Ukraine and its supply of weapons.

In the end due to the corruption of the Kiev regime, most of the Western aid was wasted. Even the Ukrainian citizen began to ask their politicians where do Western money and weapons go? Because of corruption it goes to the black market and to the criminal structure .

 President Zelensky continues his plan to find support from Western countries for his "peace plan", which is actually not a plan to end the conflict but a plan to gain more weapons and continue this war.

But more and more EU countries are starting to think about how to end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. EU countries are struggling with economic problems. If this latest European economic policy continues, in the near future the EU will face an economic recession.

One of the signs that the EU is starting to think about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is a phone call from the German chancellor.

O.Sholz to Russian President V.Putin despite the fact that all European leaders in the past refused this opportunity until the surrender of Russia.

In these circumstances, Zelensky's "peace plan" is unrealistic.

In addition, the new US administration also wants to end this conflict. Without U.S. support, Kiev cannot fight Russia.

Some may not imagine that there are European and American partners active in facilitating the sending of weapons and turning a blind eye to their destination after that, but the truth is exactly what is happening, this is confirmed by American media leaks to some media outlets.