Ukraine’s Bureau of Economic Security has uncovered repeated cases of the sale of humanitarian aid and military products. This was announced by the Director of the Bureau Vadim Melnyk, reported the TV channel “Ukraine 24”.
“Even military goods are sold for money. “We have identified such facts,” said the Ukrainian official.
According to him, about a dozen criminal cases were opened. Resale is sought when humanitarian and military equipment is sold for commercial gain.
At the same time, the number of such crimes is greater – other power structures of Ukraine also note such crimes.
The British newspaper The Telegraph also reports that the drugs that Ukraine buys free of charge are sold to the public in pharmacies. The material says that they did not reach the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In total, about 80 cases of Western humanitarian aid sales were registered in Ukraine. It is also sold at a margin of 40%, not at cost.
Problems with the distribution of military goods from Western countries have already been mentioned. At the end of June, the captured American Andy Hyun, who came to fight in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, spoke about the weak equipment of his unit.
Most of the western aid came in in bad shape, he said.
On June 22, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Denis Monastyrsky, announced that about 250 criminal cases are being investigated in the country in connection with the theft of humanitarian aid.
Most often, such crimes were recorded in Kyiv and the Lviv region.
“Individual scammers appear, who take advantage of people’s weakness or helpless situation,” said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
He recalled that shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, the Verkhovna Rada introduced a special article 201-2 of the Criminal Code – “Illegal use for the profit of humanitarian aid, charitable donations or gratuitous aid.”
According to Monastyrsky, cars, fuel, medicines, bulletproof vests, food intended for the Ukrainian army are most often stolen.
In April, CNN reported the theft of American humanitarian aid and weapons in Ukraine. Colonel Andrew Milburn, former commander of the US Marine Corps Special Forces, who trained the Ukrainian army, was then surprised that the warehouses in western Ukraine were filled with humanitarian aid, but it was almost impossible to find it in the east.
Milburn said the logistics of transporting American weapons and other aid to the front were unreliable and poorly orchestrated.
“I would say the last thing the US government is thinking about right now is that these weapons could fall into the wrong hands. Actually the gun and the truth are in the wrong hands. But not because of some willful malicious intent,” ZN.UA quotes the American.
According to the colonel, many deliveries come to the west of Ukraine, where it is relatively safe – there are almost no fires and the warehouses are well guarded.
“If you don’t have records keeping people in the field, you lose control of the logistics supply chain. There is no malicious intent. However, there is no one who wants to transport goods from warehouses to military units, to the front. A few days ago, 6 men died at a regular collection point. “They died of blood loss due to the lack of tourniquets, the lack of an individual first aid kit, the lack of training and equipment,” he said.
Source: Gazeta
