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ARES has an interesting piece up about the cottage industry suppressed weapons appearing in the Donbass in use by Russian separatists which is odd because Uncle Putin hasn’t had a problem supplying these proxy little green men with all of their needs up to and including advanced missile systems.

Still, curious hoglegs:

One of the weapons, dubbed ‘Deaf-mute Aunt Tanya from Donbas’, appears to be a modified Russian TT-33 type self-loading pistol which has been converted to chamber the 9 x 18 Makarov cartridge with the addition of a newly-manufactured barrel. This barrel is threaded to accept a suppressor.

Then there is a subgun series that ARES says:

This particular weapon appears to be a derivative of a submachine gun produced in the early 1990s at the Zavod Arsenal plant in Kiev, and is possibly a continuation of this production by separatist forces. The weapon can be seen fielded by a separatist fighter with the suppressor and wire stock removed. A smaller submachine gun which is also shown appears to incorporate an integrally-suppressed barrel unit. Such a configuration reduces overall length whilst still incorporating a suppressor of a useful and effective size.