Contents tagged with Ukrainian customs
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Ukraine's 2025 drone imports soar with 98% arriving from China
Ukraine has imported a staggering 127,800 civilian drones, valued at $371.3 million, in the first quarter of 2025. An overwhelming 98% of these UAVs originate from China, benefiting from customs duty exemptions, reported Ukraine's Customs Service's.
According to the agency's report, "In the first three months of 2025, Ukraine imported 127,800 civilian unmanned aerial vehicles, with a total cost of $371.3 million, which marks a $103 million (or 39%) increase over the same period in 2024." …
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Media: Ukraine loses 4 billion euro annually because of corruption at the customs
Ukraine loses over 4 billion euro annually due to corruption. "It is more than one tenth of all revenue of the budget and double the sum that Ukraine expects to receive in 2018 from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the World Bank,” according to Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper’s investigation that it published on Monday, August 6.
Based on customs and transport consignment notes, Süddeutsche Zeitung described the fraud schemes used to avoid duties. Goods brought into the …