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The war is driving old buddies apart.
War disrupts Ukrainian-Russian mafia bondhttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230602-war-disrupts-ukrainian-russian-mafia-bond
"The vast majority of Ukrainian criminals took the side of Ukraine," said 59-year-old Kirim, who spoke on condition that he be given a pseudonym.
"But there are also those who continue to cooperate with Russia," he noted, speaking only once a waiter had delivered the coffees and left.
The cross-border network of drugs, guns and people trafficking that developed between Ukraine and Russia from the rubble of the Soviet Union had been considered one of the world's strongest.
Those links have been disrupted but persist.
When Moscow's troops attacked Ukraine in February 2022 it resulted in the severing of a smuggling highway that ran westward for hundreds of kilometres toward Europe from the border with Russia.
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