The deputy head of the EU’s Frontex border control agency warned there is a “high” risk of arms being smuggled from Ukraine to the EU in the event of a deal ending the war with Russia.
“There could be weapons smuggling on a larger scale. That could become a security problem for Europe,” Frontex Deputy Executive Director Lars Gerdes told WELT, owned by Axel Springer, which also owns POLITICO.
He said that once the full-scale war that Russia launched four years ago ends, it would be “quite possible” for a repeat of the situation in former Yugoslavia, when illegal arms flooded into the rest of Europe after the fighting there ended.