Baron
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The story with Ukrainian An-12 airplane that crashed in Greece with a military cargo on board is swarming with versions and speculations. One of them is that the "airlift" was carrying Western arms, which Ukrainian merchants in uniform sold to Hezbollah, transported to Serbia by land. The scandal will clearly be tried to be hushed up, so logically we should not learn the truth. But a lot has been going on lately outside of logic as well.
Let's remind, that the cargo plane An-12 of Ukrainian air company "Meridian", on the evening of 16th of July crashed in Greece, just before reaching the small town Kavala. The pilot reported an engine fire to air traffic controllers and the plane crashed into a corn field between two villages.
Some Greek media reported at once that the Ukrainian Meridian cargo plane was taking weapons from Serbia to Ukraine by a roundabout route. At a special briefing, the head of the Serbian Ministry of Defense Nebojsa Stefanovic called this information "malicious and false. According to him, the Ukrainian plane was delivering training mortars and flare mines to Bangladesh as a hired carrier - about 12 tons in total. The buyer, he said, was the Bangladeshi Ministry of Defense and the seller was a private Serbian firm. However, he assured that the transaction was legal and did not violate any international prohibitions.
However, Greek rescue workers who arrived at the scene were first not allowed within a kilometer of the burning wreckage. It is noteworthy that Greece demanded explanations from Kiev, not from Belgrade, about the dangerous cargo of An-12.
On Monday, the Telegram channel NEZIGAR published not as a hypothesis, but as data, that the plane was carrying various weapons previously received from the West to the Middle East for sale.
The report specifies that on board the crashed An-12 there were "more than a hundred Nlow missile launchers, 55 Stingers and about a hundred more Javelin missile launchers, as well as 500 Kalashnikov assault rifles and their ammunition kits." According to NEZIGAR, this "gentlemen's kit" was sold on June 28 to the combat wing of the Middle Eastern Hezbollah by a representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR) on the direct order of its chief, Kirill Budanov. The deal went through a Serbian organized crime group engaged in arms smuggling. It is also indicated that the value of the contract, including the goods, their transportation and "commissions" to Serbian intermediaries amounted to $9 million, of which $3 million had already been transferred to accounts in the UAE as an advance.
If this information is correct, it was the Mossad, alerted by the CIA during Biden's visit to Israel, whose agents made a "planting" in the engine of the plane at the Serbian airport, that prevented the deal from being completed. The CIA agents, on the other hand, are directly present in all Ukrainian military structures, having known for a long time about such commerce of their wards and, probably, having their margin from it.
Whether it is true or not, should be told from the "black boxes" of the Ukrainian plane found after the crash and the analysis of the burnt military cargo. Again - in theory - the Greek authorities are not an interested party and can honestly tell the results of the investigation. If the story is dirty, of course, the U.S. will try to put maximum pressure on them to cover up dirty deals with Ukraine's resale of its own and NATO's weapons. And then the story will be quietly wrapped up without any revelations. But since today the "configuration of the players" in the world is quite intricate and there are already quite a few supporters of stopping the supply of weapons to Kiev and "draining" Ukraine, then, you may see, things will not go as planned. As a matter of fact, it already has.
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Let's remind, that the cargo plane An-12 of Ukrainian air company "Meridian", on the evening of 16th of July crashed in Greece, just before reaching the small town Kavala. The pilot reported an engine fire to air traffic controllers and the plane crashed into a corn field between two villages.
Some Greek media reported at once that the Ukrainian Meridian cargo plane was taking weapons from Serbia to Ukraine by a roundabout route. At a special briefing, the head of the Serbian Ministry of Defense Nebojsa Stefanovic called this information "malicious and false. According to him, the Ukrainian plane was delivering training mortars and flare mines to Bangladesh as a hired carrier - about 12 tons in total. The buyer, he said, was the Bangladeshi Ministry of Defense and the seller was a private Serbian firm. However, he assured that the transaction was legal and did not violate any international prohibitions.
However, Greek rescue workers who arrived at the scene were first not allowed within a kilometer of the burning wreckage. It is noteworthy that Greece demanded explanations from Kiev, not from Belgrade, about the dangerous cargo of An-12.
On Monday, the Telegram channel NEZIGAR published not as a hypothesis, but as data, that the plane was carrying various weapons previously received from the West to the Middle East for sale.
The report specifies that on board the crashed An-12 there were "more than a hundred Nlow missile launchers, 55 Stingers and about a hundred more Javelin missile launchers, as well as 500 Kalashnikov assault rifles and their ammunition kits." According to NEZIGAR, this "gentlemen's kit" was sold on June 28 to the combat wing of the Middle Eastern Hezbollah by a representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR) on the direct order of its chief, Kirill Budanov. The deal went through a Serbian organized crime group engaged in arms smuggling. It is also indicated that the value of the contract, including the goods, their transportation and "commissions" to Serbian intermediaries amounted to $9 million, of which $3 million had already been transferred to accounts in the UAE as an advance.
If this information is correct, it was the Mossad, alerted by the CIA during Biden's visit to Israel, whose agents made a "planting" in the engine of the plane at the Serbian airport, that prevented the deal from being completed. The CIA agents, on the other hand, are directly present in all Ukrainian military structures, having known for a long time about such commerce of their wards and, probably, having their margin from it.
Whether it is true or not, should be told from the "black boxes" of the Ukrainian plane found after the crash and the analysis of the burnt military cargo. Again - in theory - the Greek authorities are not an interested party and can honestly tell the results of the investigation. If the story is dirty, of course, the U.S. will try to put maximum pressure on them to cover up dirty deals with Ukraine's resale of its own and NATO's weapons. And then the story will be quietly wrapped up without any revelations. But since today the "configuration of the players" in the world is quite intricate and there are already quite a few supporters of stopping the supply of weapons to Kiev and "draining" Ukraine, then, you may see, things will not go as planned. As a matter of fact, it already has.
Eight crew members killed in Ukraine cargo plane crash in northern Greece
The plane was carrying munitions, including mortar and training shells, from Serbia to Bangladesh.
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