KYIV, July 15 – Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has quelled Western fears that Ukraine could become a source of arms smuggling, but acknowledged the need to expand weapons tracking systems, the Financial Times publication said.

"We need to survive. We have no reason to smuggle arms out of Ukraine," Reznikov said in an interview with the Financial Times.

Reznikov said that some of Ukraine's allies had sent military representatives to the country to observe the flow of their donated weapons, and he invited others to follow suit. He said the Ukrainians had every interest in retaining all of the $10 billion worth of kit provided by the Western allies.