On November 10, a meeting was held at the Foreign Ministry with the Ambassador of Ukraine Mykola Doroshenko, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.

“Serious concern has been brought to the attention of the Ukrainian Ambassador in connection with the unfounded statement of a representative of the Ukraine  Ministry of Defense in the media about the alleged supply of dual-use products in circumvention of the sanctions,” the report said.

The Foreign Ministry also stressed the inadmissibility of the Ukrainian side spreading false information in the media regarding Uzbekistan.

“At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is ready, upon receipt of official requests from the Ukrainian side, to review the matter and provide objective information,” the statement by the Foreign ministry added.

In turn, Ambassador Mykola Doroshenko assured that he would promptly bring the concerns of the Uzbek side and the results of the meeting to the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

The day before, on November 9, the NV.ua portal published an interview with the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadym Skibitsky to the Italian La Repubblica.

“Russia also turned to China and North Korea, possibly Kyrgyzstan, for the supply of weapons, including spare parts for Smerch and Uragan MLRS. There are countries such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that are helping Russia to circumvent sanctions by selling them US and Japanese civilian components needed to build missiles,” said Vadim Skibitsky.

He added that the Russians did not have the ultra-modern weapons that they demonstrated at military parades. “Moscow cannot produce high-tech weapons on its own, so it turns to other countries,” a representative of Ukrainian intelligence stated.