A Ukrainian company contracted to manufacture critically needed land- and anti-personnel mines for the front pocketed nearly Hr.3 billion ($69.8 million) in taxpayer money and instead sent small volumes of munitions that frequently failed to function and sometimes blew up as troops handled them, a senior Kyiv law enforcement official announced Friday.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said his office had conducted searches and notified ten people that they were potential suspects in the case, in comment accompanied by video published on his personal Facebook page.
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Source: Kyiv Post News
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