How Ukraine fell victim to fake arms deals

乌克兰如何沦为假武器交易的受害者

FT News Briefing

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2025-05-27

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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 kicked off a massive arms procurement race for Kyiv. Officials looked just about everywhere for weapons they could ship to the frontlines. However, Ukraine has lost hundreds of millions of dollars on fraudulent arms deals in the process. The FT’s Ukraine correspondent Isobel Koshiw and investigative reporter Miles Johnson share their reporting.  Mentioned in this podcast: How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong Ukraine arms procurement feud risks eroding western trust, G7 warns Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Ethan Plotkin, Sonja Hutson, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Sam Giovinco, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s acting co-head of audio. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Good morning from the Financial Times.

  • Today is Tuesday, May 27th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

  • I'm Mark Filippino, and today we're doing something a little different on the briefing.

  • We're going to be answering one big question.

  • How did Ukraine lose hundreds of millions of dollars on fake arms deals?

  • For background, right after Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022,

  • he realized it had a problem.

  • Its soldiers only had enough ammunition to fight for two months.

  • That kicked off a massive arms procurement race for Ukraine, and since then,

  • it's spent billions of dollars on all sorts of guns,

  • ammo, and bombs from dealers around the world, but lots of those weapons never even arrived.