Media: almost 179 thousand weapons stolen in Ukraine since the launch of special military operation
Almost 179 thousand firearms have been lost or stolen on the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of the special military operation, RIA Novosti reports
Information about the loss of weapons was shared by the Ukrainian analytical resource Opendatabot.
“Since the beginning of the special operation, 178,818 units of lost and stolen weapons have been recorded – 30 percent of the total number of weapons registered throughout the entire time,” the Opendatabot website published.
Such data was obtained based on information from the Ukrainian registry of lost and stolen weapons, which records data on both civilian and military weapons.
The resource also notes that most of the weapons – 80 percent – is listed as lost, and 20 percent of this amount are stolen weapons.
Most of the stolen or missing items were Kalashnikov assault rifles and Makarov pistols.
