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Ukraine, After War, Becomes a Trove for Black Market Arms Trade

Reuters

25 July 2016

By Alessandra Prentice and Anton Zverev

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The fighting in eastern Ukraine between the Moscow-backed separatists and Ukraine's pro-Western government… took huge amounts of arms out of government arsenals and put them in the hands of irregular units unable to properly control them.

Now the fighting has subsided, according to security officials and experts on the arms trade, the weapons are getting into the hands of criminals and being spirited to buyers well beyond the conflict zone… most of the weapons from Ukraine will be destined for other conflict zones in places such as Iraq, Syria and Libya…

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