In Ukraine, kyiv announced more than 1,000 ongoing police operations to dismantle illegal arms sales and storage networks across the country.
In a short video resembling a thriller series broadcast on its social networks, the Ukrainian national police shared images of a search among a thousand similar operations it says, operations still in progress, which take place across the whole country, writes our correspondent in kyiv, Emmanuelle Chaze.
We see special forces officers carrying out a search of an apartment which they force entry to, and seizures of money and weapons. According to kyiv, the aim of these operations is to dismantle illicit trafficking arising from the seizure of weapons from Russian soldiers on the battlefield. These seizures made in the urgency of war often escape all control.
Increasing traffic
They fuel arms trafficking which has been increasing since the start of the large-scale Russian invasion ofUkraine by Russia. In addition to the weapons, ammunition and explosives circulating illegally which were seized, the police promise an account at the end of the operations. This is not the first time that the country has tried to stem this arms trafficking.
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