Ukraine now becomes a trove for black market arms trade
Ukrainian soldiers stand guard in a tank at their newly erected checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainain city of Sloviansk in April 2014. PHOTO | FILE
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He traveled to a spot on the Russian-Ukrainian border where he retrieved a cache of weapons hidden there earlier by his comrades in the pro-Russian rebel movement.
Four days later, shortly before 6:00 p.m., he and a friend showed up in a taxi at a fuel station in western Russia where they had arranged to meet a contact ready to buy the arms, according to Russian court documents.
