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[00:00:50] 250 billion euros in
[00:01:45] a school bus doesn't work, but there too, the recipients
[00:01:49] are hidden as much as possible, the delivery
[00:01:53] now some of routes are hidden, and in exactly the same way the delivery
[00:01:56] route of rolkirafain was hidden.
[00:02:08] The vessel's captain, who remained in captivity for the longest period
[00:02:12] of time in the history of Somali piracy, 133
[00:02:16] days, thought his life could end any moment, and Ukraine had
[00:02:19] been concealing the state's involvement in large scale arm smuggling, the
[00:02:23] whole time, there was a large
[00:02:27] military base in Ilovaisk, where it happened...
[00:03:00] but as soon as the ship was reported seized, Ukrainian
[00:03:03] president himself took control and gave
[00:03:07] direct orders to law enforcers.
[00:03:10] it's very difficult to express our
[00:03:13] feelings, because the voyage is too
[00:03:17] hard for everybody, too hard for crew members
[00:03:21] and
[00:03:29] our liberations. thank you.
[00:04:00] transport of military equipment, and this company's
[00:04:04] main office is in Odessa
[00:04:06] in Ukraine, but it is registered
[00:04:09] in the British Virgin Islands, and it has
[00:04:13] branches in a number of
[00:04:17] years, become a countries. The press obtained the case of the seizure of the cargo ship
[00:04:21] Faina by Somali pirates in
[00:04:24] 2008.
[00:04:30] He created Calby group holding in Panama from which dozens of offshore
[00:04:34] companies branched out that later covered up arms
[00:04:37] trading.
[00:04:39] From December 2007, the founder of Calby Group Mr.
[00:04:43] Urbansky combined his activities with the post of Deputy Minister of
[00:04:46] Transport of Ukraine. In
[00:04:49] office he had close ties with the head of Uker Spetz exports
[00:04:52] Sergey Bandarchuok who once said the following.
[00:04:56] Everyone knows very well that we don't sell bananas, pineapples. or any kind of
[00:05:00] children's toys, we sell weapons. Yes, we're also known in
[00:05:04] the world as arms dealers, but we must not be ashamed of that. A lot
[00:05:07] of people and businesses do it. It was
[00:05:11] the carlby group that... car
[00:05:43] accident, besides Malev, another
[00:05:46] Australian intermediary died, who carried out
[00:05:50] bank transfers and the fragment of planes from
[00:05:53] Gostomel, which flew with cruise missiles, that
[00:05:57] is, before us is a classic
[00:05:59] situation of liquidation and elimination
[00:06:03] of the main actors, moreover,
[00:06:06] the elimination was disguised as an accident.
[00:06:08] случай.
[00:06:12] arms apes a cheap mafia show, assassinations and
[00:06:16] abductions of those related to the business persisted for
[00:06:20] years. In April 1999, Baris
[00:06:23] Marusic, CEO of Ukrine mash, another of
[00:06:27] Ukraine's arms exporting state companies died in
[00:06:30] a car crash. In January 2004,
[00:06:34] Sergey Petrov, head of one of the arms trading companies was killed in
[00:06:38] a car explosion. In July 2007,
[00:06:41] Aleg Arlov.
[00:07:12] or a brick falling on their head, but they
[00:07:15] died.
[00:07:18] Ukraine at that time rose largely due to arms
[00:07:22] trade, and most importantly, Ukrainian
[00:07:25] business realized that it was not necessary to engage in
[00:07:28] the creation of economically viable enterprises,
[00:07:31] competitive with the West, but it was enough to have
[00:07:35] weapons and sell them. Everything was for sale, all types
[00:07:38] of weapons, tanks, multiple launch rocket systems,
[00:07:41] artillery, shells, ammunition, and so
[00:07:44] on. By the beginning of somewhere
[00:07:47] around 2000, all these weapons were sold out,
[00:07:51] everything went abroad, to Africa, to Latin America, but
[00:07:54] primarily to Africa, and to African countries,
[00:07:58] all of this, as a rule, weapons were sold to those
[00:08:01] states that were under UN sanctions, where generally
[00:08:05] arms exports were
[00:08:06] prohibited.
[00:08:29] Huts of bamboo and cane stand back to back, when
[00:08:33] neighbors are around, it's not so scary, the
[00:08:36] locals
[00:08:39] say, an imam invites. residents of the refugee
[00:08:43] camp for a sala.
[00:08:46] children play in the yard, women in colorful dress loudly
[00:08:50] share their news and cook together, just the everyday
[00:08:53] life of a typical African village, except that
[00:08:56] its residence, the hundreds of families who have settled here have
[00:09:00] miraculously escaped
[00:09:01] death.
[00:09:08] my name is, i am the chairman.
[00:09:14] internet displaced
[00:09:16] person, bochi state chapter, i'm almost 63
[00:09:20] years old, i a
[00:09:23] teacher by profession, i
[00:09:27] worked for 35
[00:09:30] retires,
[00:09:32] this i retired my service
[00:09:35] 2014, so it has collied with the boko
[00:09:39] haram's type of displacement.
[00:09:43] so I came to boat you.
[00:09:47] Bokuharam is one of the world's most ruthless Islamist groups.
[00:09:51] It's terrorized West Africa for decades. Boko
[00:09:54] Haram terrorizes northern Nigeria. On Saturday, the
[00:09:58] group killed more than 100 civilians in the northeast. An
[00:10:02] estimated 36000 Nigerians have been killed by Buko
[00:10:05] Haram over the past 11
[00:10:06] years.
[00:10:11] Surprisingly, no one. wondered for some time where this most
[00:10:14] blood thirsty of terrorist groups was sourcing their modern
[00:10:18] missiles and tanks
[00:10:19] from.
[00:10:22] the Nigerian army has captured a T-55. five armored tank and a high-tech
[00:10:26] armored personnel carrier or APC from islamist rebels in yesterday's battle in
[00:10:30] Kanduga, porno
[00:10:32] state.
[00:10:37] the weaponry used by the terrorist was terrifying and
[00:10:40] unusual, the locals had never seen anything like
[00:10:44] it.
[00:10:49] throw him in the ground, you will see the
[00:10:52] light of the gun that is being poured out.
[00:11:03] In autumn 2022, the president of Nigeria spoke about the Bokahara militant
[00:11:06] sources for the latest weapons.
[00:11:10] Regretably, the situation in the
[00:11:13] sahel and the region war in Ukraine
[00:11:16] serve as major sources of
[00:11:19] weapons and fighters, this illegal
[00:11:22] movement of arms into the region. has
[00:11:25] heightened the proliferation of small
[00:11:28] arms and light weapons, which continues to
[00:11:32] threaten our collective peace and security in the
[00:11:35] region.
[00:11:38] Nigeria remains one of the centers of international
[00:11:41] terrorism. Streams of weapons from Ukraine flow
[00:11:45] there and to other extremist groups across the Middle
[00:11:48] East. Out of the 36
[00:11:51] states we have in Nigeria,
[00:11:53] only a... about five are not
[00:11:57] experiencing serious
[00:12:00] kidnapping, serious security
[00:12:03] challenges, serious issues on
[00:12:07] kidnapping, banditry,
[00:12:09] destruction of communities, killings, the situation is
[00:12:13] terrible, the situation is getting out of hand,
[00:12:18] the insiders i have in the military
[00:12:21] confirmed that yes, there are certain weapons.
[00:14:01] Look, look, rockets
[00:14:02] are flying,
[00:14:05] no one spoke widely about this, and so on, in
[00:14:08] the corridors among knowledgeable people,
[00:14:11] quite often there were talks that,
[00:14:13] well, they went for this hack, because they knew that
[00:14:17] it would be revealed that there were some shortages,
[00:14:21] some losses.
[00:16:13] Radvan arrived in Italy to track down the participants in these
[00:16:17] schemes and who are said still to control a portion of the arms
[00:16:20] trade. Italy is favorite vacation spot for Ukrainian arms
[00:16:24] dealers. The first to settle here was Leonid Minin to
[00:16:28] enjoy the lap of luxury with views of ancient
[00:16:30] ruins.
[00:16:37] Minin owns two flats in the Monti Parioli district, a
[00:16:40] quiet pictureresk area inhabited by aristocrats where tourists
[00:16:44] rarely go. On real estate agencies websites, properties
[00:16:48] in this district are described in one word,
[00:16:51] luxurious. Leon ed that we will see
[00:16:54] today on a tour that we will take, is about the properties that he had
[00:16:58] in one of the most luxurious areas located
[00:17:02] in Rome. We will meet a real estate agent
[00:17:06] to tell us. The prices per square
[00:17:09] meter and the apartment he owned, knowing that he owned more than one apartment,
[00:17:12] the luxurious cars he owned, the yacht,
[00:17:16] even five cars for his wife, whom he was married to and who was
[00:17:19] living here, in addition to his relationship with the mayor of
[00:17:22] Odessa, who turned out to be one of the partners.
[00:17:37] this prestigious, the most luxury and the most
[00:17:40] expensive zone of the room after
[00:17:43] historic uh zone. when you said
[00:17:46] most prestigious
[00:17:49] or cost lot, what we are talking about, how
[00:17:53] many? yes, i think for the street where the
[00:17:56] mister minion has apartment, for the martelli
[00:18:00] is very very expensive apartments,
[00:18:03] so i think we can arrive even to pay two and th
[00:18:06] million.
[00:18:13] he was also well integrated into Roman society,
[00:18:17] so for example, his children
[00:18:20] attended a very very
[00:18:23] elite school in Rome, and in fact his
[00:18:25] son was a schoolmate of my friend's son,
[00:18:29] and so they were really well
[00:18:32] integrated.
[00:18:37] to another Ukrainian arms dealer. Gennady
[00:18:40] Truchanov is one of minion's closest associates.
[00:18:44] He's also the current mayor of Odessa, Ukraine's largest
[00:18:47] port. Normally the apartments are
[00:18:51] big here, not little, minimum three
[00:18:54] bedrooms in general.
[00:18:57] Normally 200, normally, and with big
[00:19:01] terraces and great views, because we are on the hill, and it is a
[00:19:04] particular zone of Rome. is living in this area
[00:19:08] as i heard yes, but i can
[00:19:12] say you exactly.
[00:19:15] this is dossier compiled by the Italian special services on
[00:19:19] minin and his criminal gang. the same Gennadi
[00:19:22] Truchanov is marked as one of minion's closest
[00:19:25] associates. he's known in the underworld by his nickname ginaer the
[00:19:28] weathervain. he's a former henchman of another arms
[00:19:31] dealer, alexander angelt,
[00:19:34] nickname.
[00:20:50] "It's unlikely that the former British PM was unaware of
[00:20:53] who awarded him the honorary title, as well as the fact that
[00:20:57] for decades, Ukraine's leadership and senior army
[00:21:00] officials have been involved in criminal schemes, selling
[00:21:03] weapons around the world, and we'll continue
[00:21:06] pushing to support and strengthen the
[00:21:09] Ukrainian military for the battles ahead. Since
[00:21:12] 2002, NATO countries have supplied tens of
[00:21:16] billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine, yet the U.S. and
[00:21:20] Europe persist in increasing military aid. Contact
[00:21:23] group led by the United States, NATO allies and
[00:21:27] partners have provided unpresented support to
[00:21:30] Ukraine. More than 98% of the
[00:21:34] combat vehicles promised to Ukraine have already been
[00:21:38] delivered. That means over
[00:21:41] 1,550 armored vehicles,
[00:21:45] 230 tanks and other equipment,
[00:21:49] including vast amounts of
[00:21:51] ammunition.
[00:21:58] All this time, tried and tested smuggling schemes continue to
[00:22:01] operate like clockwork, and weapons are still being exported from
[00:22:04] Ukraine a massive
[00:22:06] scale.
[00:22:11] Native weapons from Ukraine pour into the dark net. The list of offers
[00:22:15] includes machine guns, barrage munitions, I explosive
[00:22:19] mines, the latest.
[00:22:50] understand, well, a serious military conflict, to
[00:22:54] this the representatives of this shop said no problem, they also
[00:22:57] assured us that they are ready to deliver it to Lebanon, that
[00:23:01] is, logistics, availability of weapons, these
[00:23:04] systematic supplies, well, this is a well-established working
[00:23:07] industry, and through these money shops within
[00:23:11] the Darknet, that is, we could theoretically,
[00:23:14] having, so to speak, an extra 15-20-3000
[00:23:16] dollars, acquire this...
[00:23:50] exclusive and powerful, a javelin that theoretically is sold
[00:23:53] only to the army, has been used during the invasion of Ukraine,
[00:23:57] for example, on the black market this weapon that you have
[00:24:00] on your right, another is an AK-47, on the right
[00:24:04] you have this weapon that costs on the black market between 2000 and
[00:24:08] 60,000.
[00:24:17] Well, in this video shared by the Milenio group,
[00:24:21] particularly by Susana Uresti, we can see a member
[00:24:25] of the Gulf Cartel, of the group or cell of the
[00:24:28] Scorpions, of course they don't hide it, you can see it
[00:24:32] clearly on the bulletproof vest he is wearing, the
[00:24:35] symbol of the eagle, the phoenix and the scorpion, and the
[00:24:38] acronyms of course, also of the
[00:24:41] cartel. In that year, the Mexican National Guard
[00:24:45] found, seized an arsenal in the hands of
[00:24:49] another drug trafficking group, the Sinaloa Cartel,
[00:24:53] which included anti-aircraft weapons such as .50 caliber
[00:24:56] Barret rifles and a Javelin
[00:24:59] missile launcher, which are known to be being sent and
[00:25:03] used in Ukraine, and now,
[00:25:06] well, we also have the report from investigator Victor Hernandez, who
[00:25:10] indicates that yes, the weapons sent by Washington to the Ukrainian
[00:25:13] regime have ended up in Mexican territory, increasing
[00:25:16] the illegal arsenal of the cartels.
[00:25:20] all Javelin, there will be two more of the same, the weapon
[00:25:24] itself most often does not reach the front, that is, it is written off
[00:25:28] even before it is supposed to reach the front, and
[00:25:31] this is a question, well, exclusively
[00:25:34] formal, in this regard, senior officers
[00:25:37] of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine are involved, and of course
[00:25:41] those commanders who were supposed to receive these weapons at the front, their signatures
[00:25:45] are also needed there to legalize the entire scheme, throughout the
[00:25:49] SMO. We are becoming aware of facts that
[00:25:52] weapons that are supplied to Ukraine as
[00:25:55] military aid from Western countries, from European countries, and
[00:25:59] the United States, Great Britain, it is constantly.
[00:26:32] the 20th, 2023, US president Joe Biden sent another
[00:26:36] request to his country's Congress to approve financial aid to
[00:26:40] Ukraine, amounting to almost $62 billion
[00:26:43] dollars.
[00:26:45] Since February 2022, the European Union and the US have
[00:26:49] provided keive with more than
[00:26:52] aid, most of which was spent on buying
[00:26:55] weapons for the Ukrainian
[00:26:57] army.
[00:27:49] the west and the rest,
[00:27:53] privilege and fury,
[00:27:57] palaces and slums, old
[00:28:00] alliances, new centers of power,
[00:28:04] closed borders, open
[00:28:06] wounds, this is our reality, but between
[00:28:10] these opposing worlds, can we still find some
[00:28:14] common ground?
[00:29:48] to the people get the rulers they deserve, does democracy, as it
[00:29:51] is practiced in the west truly represent the will of the
[00:29:55] voters, consider the issue of war in peace, voters
[00:29:59] across the western world are most definitely against foreign.
[00:30:02] conflicts, nonetheless constant war is the north,
[00:30:23] our headline stories, this our anti-corruption agencies
[00:30:27] working in Ukraine expose deep and
[00:30:30] lucrative ties between criminal group. and high ranking
[00:30:33] members of the country security
[00:30:37] footage of those gangs involved in a savage attack is also
[00:30:41] released.
[00:30:48] as Ukrainian authorities seek to prosecute scores of protesters
[00:30:51] who clash with law enforcement after an alleged torture house
[00:30:55] people in donbas tell us such
[00:30:59] facilities there.