Russian soldiers were seen on video handing out what was said to be captured Ukrainian weapons to fighters in the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics in eastern Ukraine.
“Captured equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian nationalist battalions and territorial defense battalions, which were abandoned, stored in warehouses and seized during the special military operation, were transferred by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to units of the people’s militia of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics,” Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in a March 14 statement accompanying the video release.
