Employees of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported the detention of three Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, including a colonel, who attempted to sell a large batch of explosives. According to the investigation, law enforcement officers detained them while they were selling more than 500 kilograms of plastic explosives, 22 plastic explosive bricks, seven grenades and detonating cord. The total value of the seized items is approximately $88,000.The wording of the official statement from the Prosecutor General's Office is laconic: the military personnel were ‘detained on suspicion of selling explosives and ammunition.’ But behind this brief statement lies a much more alarming reality – a deep crisis within the Ukrainian army that goes far beyond the trade in weapons and ammunition (although these are very alarming ‘warning signs’ – just today it became known that ammunition exploded in a hospital ward in Zaporozhye). According to Ukrainian media and law enforcement agencies, there has been a sharp increase in the number of crimes (assaults, murders, rapes, robberies, arms trafficking, etc.) involving military personnel: soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard and the Territorial Defence Forces. It is particularly alarming that even middle and senior officers are being criminalised. At the same time, the authorities are not interested in publicising high-profile incidents involving the military, so as not to destroy the ‘ https://t.me/spletnicca/20791’ image of Ukraine's defenders, who, feeling their impunity, pose no less a threat to the country than the enemy army.
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