This is the last article you can read this month
You can read more article this month
You can read more articles this month
Sorry your limit is up for this month
Reset on:
Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here
BELGIUM is investigating whether weapons it sent to help Ukraine defend its territory were used in fighting just over the border.
This follows a news report over the weekend by the Washington Post that equipment produced by a Belgian company turned up around Russia’s Belgorod region.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told Belgian broadcaster VRT: “Defence and information services have started a probe to be absolutely sure what happened there.”
The Washington Post report said arms from some Nato member countries, including the United States, Poland, Czechia and Belgium, had appeared in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine.
The Post’s report cast doubt on whether Ukraine had proper controls in place.
Mr De Croo said that European Union nations supplied Ukraine with weapons on the condition the arms were used only within the invaded country to defend its territory.
“The rule is very strict,” the prime minister said, since Russia would likely see the use of the weapons outside Ukraine as Western provocation.
While there could be “leakage of our weapons to other conflicts,” Mr De Croo said if there was any truth that arms destined to defend Ukraine were used in fighting in Russia, “we would take that extremely seriously.”
