Russia's War Against Ukraine
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C. J. Chivers: In Ukraine, spent cartridges offer clues to violence fueled by Soviet surplus
With its independence in 1991, Ukraine inherited a huge and unneeded stockpile of arms and ordnance from its former Soviet masters. In the years since, the country’s businessmen, security services and cargo carriers, operating in an environment plagued by corruption, have repeatedly been accused of trafficking the surplus in black-market arms deals to Africa and the Middle East.