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Buscemi, Francesco et al.. 2018 ‘Illicit Firearms Proliferation in the EU Periphery: the Case of Ukraine.’ Triggering Terror: Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe, p. 466. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 17 April

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(…) much of the firearms trafficking in Ukraine currently takes place within its borders.

The seizures reported by the DPSU are scarce and partial, but coincide with the information contained in the NISAT database, which suggests a low number of illicit cross-border flows of firearms. Furthermore, it should be borne in mind that the Ukrainian context is characterised by fluidity in terms of territorial control and border porosity, especially those areas in the eastern parts of the country under the control of the Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika (DNR) and Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika (LNR).

It is interesting to observe that our analysis based on the data collected for this chapter resembles the recent finding of the Small Arms Survey that between 2013 and 2016, 770 cases of seizures were identified that included 1,600 small arms, 1.5 million small arms cartridges, 5,000 hand grenades, 20 man-portable air defence systems, and 900 rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs).

[DPSU = State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
NISAT = Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers]

ID: Q15407

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