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Imagine inheriting the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, only to have to give it all away. This is what happened to Ukraine, and now everyone is paying the price. Here’s how a deal intended to ensure peace unraveled into war.

This December 5th marks the 30th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum—an agreement meant to provide security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for its decision to give up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.

$5 billion worth of Western-sanctioned goods disappeared during transit through Russia, a country already the most sanctioned in the world. Despite this, Russia continues to evade sanctions, with one suspected method being a fake transit scheme. What is it and how does it work?