1/ The Russian interior ministry has reported a huge increase in gun crime in Russia in the last ten months, which is being blamed on large amounts of weapons and ammunition being stolen from the Russian military operation in Ukraine and smuggled back into Russia. β¬οΈ
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that in the first ten months of 2022, there was a 30% increase in gun crime compared to the same ten months last year. Western border regions are the worst affected due to their proximity to the war in Ukraine.
3/ There are reportedly daily discoveries of "forgotten" ammunition and bayonet knives in the belongings of volunteers, mobilised men or mercenaries at railway stations and airports. However, far more gets in unnoticed via official and humanitarian channels.
4/ Acording to a source interviewed by VChK-OGPU, "The black market is overflowing with weapons imported from the [war] zone, and it is now possible to get almost any gun in Russia, even in regions remote from the border.
5/ There have already been several high-profile accidents on the territory of the country involving goods from Ukraine. Among the well-known ones, for example, the explosion of a grenade launcher in a civilian car carrying humanitarian aid in Mytishchi.
6/ And besides, just imagine how many others are there who have brought and hidden the trophies at home, and some time later, because of some injustice or in a drunken stupor, they will take out their guns?
7/ Sooner or later all this will go off, and the FSB is clearly not prepared for such a volume of work. It's no secret that over the past decade, the work of the service has been structured in such a way that implementations mainly go through greenhouse gunsmiths.
8/ This applies to those who were either aware of them and got their hands on them when it came time to report, or when they were preventing those previously convicted under Article 222 of the Criminal Code.
9/ Everyone in the system understands with horror and expects that the number of crimes other than "gun crimes" will increase soon."
10/ VChK-OGPU's source says that the number of denunciations made to the FSB by citizens has also increased sharply.
11/ "The crazy calls from psychopaths, to which the police are obliged to respond, have been supplemented by such reports as complaints against shop assistants "dissatisfied with the authorities and the situation in Ukraine"β¦
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