The ambassador of Finland in Kyiv and the Finnish police did not confirm the information about the alleged smuggling of Ukrainian weapons to their country. This was announced by the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko on Facebook.
He stated that immediately after the publication of information about the alleged smuggling of Ukrainian weapons, the Ukrainian embassy in Helsinki, on the instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, turned to the Finnish police.
"In response, the Finnish side reported the lack of confirmed information or any specific facts of the supply of contraband weapons from Ukraine. During the conversation today, the Finnish ambassador in Kyiv also did not confirm the information published in the Finnish mass media," Nikolenko said.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that such intrusions are Russian information operations aimed at sowing distrust in Ukraine among Western partners.
"The purpose of such a Russian information operation is to cause Europeans to fear that the weapons that their governments transfer to Ukraine to counter Russian aggression will turn against them themselves, falling into the hands of criminal elements," Nikolenko wrote.
He added that Ukraine maintains a close dialogue with international partners in the context of the transfer of weapons and ensuring an effective system for monitoring their use.
It should be noted that the information about the "contradand" appeared in an interview with the Finnish publication Yle with the senior commissioner of the National Bureau of Investigation, Krister Algren. It claimed that Ukrainian weapons were allegedly found in one of the Finnish biker gangs. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine declared that this information was a Russian fake.