Destination: Middle EastSo far, there is little evidence of where the weapons smuggled out of the Ukraine conflict zone end up. Igor, the rebel fighter, said there was now a well-organized trade in illegal weapons from eastern Ukraine into Russia. He said the weapons were smuggled from rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine into Russia via illegal border crossings. "Of course, they have moved arms across, and they're moving them across now," Igor, a fighter with a pro-Russian rebel unit in eastern Ukraine told Reuters in an interview. That left the rebel militias to pillage the stores where Ukraine -- one of the world's biggest arms manufacturers - kept its sizable arsenal.

Source: Thanhnien News July 25, 2016 10:07 UTC