Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million of weapons money
www.euronews.com
Authorities say five people have been charged, with one person detained while trying to cross the border. If found guilty, they face up to 12 years in prison.

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  • voight [he/him, any]4•5 months ago

    I'm still going to shoot you a youtube video about how western media is structured (i don't really watch youtube but sending ppl online books is a bit much) don't worry but in the meantime TBT

    https://web.archive.org/www.euronews.com/2022/07/17/jordan-bound-ukrainian-cargo-plane-carrying-weapons-crashes-in-greece

    remember the CNN documentary they pulled interviewing that guy saying 30%+ of the weapons go missing

    then later he got drunk in an interview and started talking abt them torturing people and shit lmao

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipM2•5 months ago

      The article mentions that all the crew died in the crash, and is there any evidence that the shipment was secretly headed to Ukraine instead of Jordan?

      As far as interview and torture, I'm not sure which party are you talking about, since the crew is dead.

      • voight [he/him, any]3•5 months ago

        My bad I'm like referring to 3 events

        So first of all Jordan is an international arms trading hub and this plane was carrying arms that were from Ukraine, so presumably they were going to sell some. This is how we get the [article about how Stingers and Javelins end up all across the globe tktktk]

        The CNN documentary features a mercenary who said the country was a black hole of arms trading, I will link it one sec, and then later that same guy was talking about them committing war crimes, using civilian vehicles, not treating POWs properly etc