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Ukrainian Hackers Expose Russian Military Arms Smuggling via Occupied Crimea
Russian military officers, working alongside fighters from the Kadyrov-linked Vostok-Akhmat battalion, have set up a weapons-smuggling network operating through temporarily occupied Crimea, according to an investigation by Ukrainian hacker group 256 Cyber Assault Division in cooperation with the international intelligence community InformNapalm published on January 8. Investigators say the occupied peninsula has been turned into a central transi…
The investigation reveals that the weapons are first transported to Crimea, which serves as a key logistics hub. From there, they are then transported to black markets within Russia itself, as well as to countries in Europe, West Asia, and Africa. According to the hackers, so-called "shadow fleet" tankers, already known for circumventing sanctions in the oil market, are used to export the weapons.
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