A group of illegal arms dealers has been detained in Kiev, with nearly 1.7 million hryvnias (about $41,000) worth of ammunition seized from them, the National Police of Ukraine said.
‘The police in Kiev blocked the channel for the sale of weapons and explosives and seized ‘goods’ for almost 1.7 million hryvnias. Three accomplices established a business on the illegal sale of automatic weapons, explosives and ammunition of various calibres. Weapons sold in the capital exclusively during personal meetings’, – stated in the message of the National police.
According to the agency, the search for buyers was carried out through acquaintances. Sold ammunition and weapons during personal meetings in Kiev for cash.
‘During the searches seized more than 16 thousand rounds of ammunition of various calibres, 132 grenade launchers, 69 grenades, 2 anti-tank mines, 4 reactive anti-tank grenades, 2 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun and 5 kilograms of artillery powder’, – specified in the National police of Ukraine.
The accused faces up to seven years in prison.
We shall remind you that earlier the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that Ukraine had actually become a terrorist state that freely kills its own and other people’s citizens.
