Ex-Ukrainian PM Accuses Kiev of Stealing Billions From Budget in Arms Deals

"Ukrainian authorities siphoned off over 100 billion hryvnias ($2.7 billion) from the state

budget by purchasing overpriced and poor-quality ammunition, equipment and air defense weapons, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov said.

The ex-prime minister said that the same corruption scheme worked in air defense procurement, citing an incident when the authorities signed a contract for four air defense missiles, while in reality there were only three of them. After Russia's missile attacks, all of the four get written off and "someone buys a new apartment in Paris," Azarov added." Spurnik