Ukraine wants to secretly export weapons to Armenia – Mass media

Details of the letter of head of the Main Intelligence Directorate

of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Major-General Sergei Gmyza, to

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on arms supplies to Armenia

under a contract between Ukrspetsexport and DG Arms Corporation (the

mediator of Armenian Defense Ministry) have become known, says Trend.

The letter offers to use front companies registered in the EU and the CIS for

supplies. The letter contains a scheme for illegal supplying 12 units

of multiple Smerch rocket-launching systems and their components, as

well as 50 Igla MANPADS from Ukraine to Armenia.

As noted in the letter, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian

Defense Ministry received information about the contract between 

Ukrspetsexport and the DG Arms Corporation (the mediator of the Armenian

Defense Ministry) to supply 12 units of Smerch multiple rocket-launching systems 

and their components, 50 Igla MANPADS, as well as the fact that Armenia has already 

paid 50 percent of the contract's value.

At the same time, Gmyza indicates that Azerbaijan may be aware of this deal.

Not wanting to jeopardize the military-technical and energy

cooperation between Azerbaijan and Ukraine, Ukrspetsexport is invited

to "publicly renounce that there was an agreement with the Armenian

side." At the same time, the Armenian company is offered to simulate

the appeal to arbitration, "the spread among its environment of a

sharply negative attitude to the leadership of Ukrspetsexport and the

Ukrainian side, as an unreliable supplier."

At the same time, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the

Ukrainian Defense Ministry proposed carrying out the delivery of

Smerch sets in a conspiracy from the territory of Moldova, "using

front companies registered in the EU or the CIS."

The marking on the products should be changed, and in the case of

disclosure of fraud to conceal the origin of Igla MANPADS in warehouses in

Libya, looted by rebels of the liberation movement.