US Food Aid Is Already Being Sold on Black Market Websites in Ukraine
Written byMEGHAN NEAL @meghanneal meghan.neal@vice.com
April 2, 2014 // 03:40 PM EST
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About a month after Russian troops invaded and annexed Crimea, the US government is offering economic support to Ukraine to help stabilize the country during the crisis. Congress approved a $1 billion loan to the former Soviet republic yesterday, and over the weekend the US sent 300,000 food rations as aid to the Ukrainian military.
The rations, called MREs for ready-to-eat meals, began rolling into Kiev over the weekend, and before the last of the shipments had even entered the country, enterprising Ukrainians had started selling the food packets on the black market.
MEGHAN NEAL
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