MOSCOW. Feb 8 (Interfax) - Weapons worth tens of billions of dollars were supplied by Western countries to Afghanistan, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"Furthermore, there is also weapons left in large numbers by the Western coalition during its retreat. I am talking about 1,000 armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers, dozens of planes and helicopters, hundreds of artillery weapons, mortars, anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems, as well as hundreds of thousands of heavy weapons and small arms worth tens of billions of dollars," Patrushev said on Wednesday at a multilateral meeting of security council secretaries on the Afghan problem.
These weapons may provoke more intense fighting between various Afghan groups and may be sold on the black market, including to terrorists in third countries, he said.
"Thus, the large hotbed of instability created in this country by the West may spread to all states of the region," he added.