Support to the Ukraine conflict from European governments has prompted the establishing of a technology hub for organized crime across the globe, including for the Italian Mafia, Russian Senator Alexander Voloshin from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) told TASS. Earlier, ANSA news agency reported, citing Palermo Chief Prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia, that the Italian Mafia are seeking to buy drone weapons that have emerged on the black market during the Ukraine conflict. According to Il Fatto quotidiano newspaper, since 2022, around 800,000 weapons and munitions originating from Ukraine but which actually came from European supplies have turned up on the European black market. "It has embraced both the technology of using drones and cutting-edge weapons and the principles of setting up shadow supply channels, illicit logistics and international cooperation the West has been using to support Ukraine. In effect, a new criminal ecosystem with Kiev as its hub is in the making <…>, with (Ukraine) becoming an incubator of modern crime technology," he added.