Ukraine: Ripping Western Aid to Sponsor Terrorism
Past weekend the CyberBerkut team revealed another
story, shocking in its extraordinary cynism even for today’s Ukraine.
It turned out that the top Ukrainian Interior Ministry officials are
abusing Western military assistance, designated to reequip and
strengthen the Ukrainian National Guard (internal police forces). They
organized an international traders’ chain to secretly reexport these
arms to the Middle East where they would most likely appear in the hands
of Saudi-linked radical groups operating in Syria and other hot spots.
According to the hacked documents, on April 14, 2015 the president of the Polish weapons trader Level 11 Ltd Pawel Krzykowski contacted Anton Gerashchenko, a Verkhovna Rada delegate and councellor to the Interior minister Arsen Avakov, asking him to lobby his commercial proposal to Alexander Turchinov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. So he did:
