No large-scale cases of illegal circulation of small arms in connection with the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine have been recorded, the EU delegation said in a statement at the meeting of the working group on firearms of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in Vienna.

Russia's war against Ukraine has increased the threat of illicit trafficking in small arms in the EU and other regions, the document says, but the bloc has taken into account the experience of the Western Balkans and is working closely with Ukraine, member states and other states to counter this threat..

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“We are mindful of the disinformation campaigns launched by Russia on this threat.. Let me emphasize that so far no large-scale illicit circulation of small arms in connection with the war has been discovered.. We can say that we have good and broad cooperation with the Ukrainian government, and we are grateful to him for identifying this threat as a priority,” the working group noted..

They added that since 2019, the European Union has been supporting Ukraine's efforts to combat illegal trafficking in weapons, ammunition and explosives and is taking concrete measures to strengthen control at the external borders of the EU..

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In February 2022, for the first time since the independence of Ukraine, the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs approved the provision on the Unified Register of Weapons of the EIS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a subsystem of the unified information system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At the end of March, the US Agency for International Development stated that it had not identified serious violations related to assistance to Ukraine..