A wash with arms and facing a breakdown in law and order, war-torn eastern Ukraine has all the elements required to become a major illicit international weapons market. Long a nexus in the global arms trade, Ukraine is already witnessing a boom in black-market sales of arms seeping out of the conflict zone, fueling what authorities say is a wave of violent crime in the country.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Flood of weapons makes eastern Ukraine ripe for arms trade
The SBU officers arrest French man as he tries to smuggle weapons through Ukrainian border late in May, 2016.
