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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. 473. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 17 April

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At the regional level, wars in Eastern Europe have been an important source of illicit firearms in Ukraine during the last 25 years. In particular, the civil war in the adjacent Transnistria, conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and two wars in Chechnya contributed to the establishment of regional networks of illicit trafficking and influxes of firearms originating from these war-torn subregions into Ukraine.

The small-scale movement of firearms in cars or on buses continues to be an issue for Ukraine's border service. Further north, trafficking to Belarus via either Chernihiv oblast or Kyiv oblast remains an issue. Belarus saw a rise in firearm seizures in both 2015 and 2016. The issue was so serious that in April 2016 Belarus announced it had launched a 'special operation' to tackle the issue of arms coming in from Ukraine, but it is unclear what measures were taken and what the results of this operation were.

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