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"We did absolutely see in Portadown last night people who were directing young people and directing others back and forwards to try and get around police lines, find weak points, throw weaponry," he said.

It will take years for Europe's military industrial base to crank up to speed to match anywhere near the scale of weaponry that Russia is churning out.

"To my horror, I saw two dead mutilated kittens, along with an array of weaponry," the witness recounted.

It has long denied reports from UN experts, US politicians and international organisations that it is providing weaponry to the RSF.

In recent decades, Washington has also sold modern transport planes, helicopters and other military equipment to Delhi, which is keen to modernise its 1.4 million strong military, that relies heavily on Russian weaponry.