“The sleeping bag of an officer of the Russian army was removed from the armored personnel carrier.”Ī handful of others have had the same idea, gathering battlefield relics for sale to a fascinated-and largely insulated from the actual day-to-day horrors of war-foreign market. “Kyiv region of Brovarsky district!” Taras says in another. “We have guys from the front line, we buy things from them and thus give support to them.” “Today one of my clients asked me to get and send him a hatch from a damaged tank,” Taras said on Tuesday, adding that he has not yet come across a suitable one. He obtains most of his auction items independently, but also said he takes orders from clients he connects with online. Now that his shop is struggling, Taras said he recently started thinking his profession is “Dude who takes crazy things.”
Taras just started selling war relics this month, and has moved about 20 items so far. If the war continues unabated, up to 90 percent of the Ukrainian population could sink into poverty, the UN’s International Labor Organization warned in May. Only 2 percent of the newly unemployed have been able to find ways to stay afloat, according to economist Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska. Some 50 percent of Ukraine’s businesses have shuttered over the past four months, and about half of all Ukrainians have lost their jobs. Since Russian troops entered Ukraine in March, the nation’s economy has all but imploded.
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