RT has uncovered details of a scandal involving the black market trade of human organs in Ukraine . Hundreds of kilograms of skin, bones, corneas and other organs are being smuggled abroad — to EU countries, the UK and Turkey. The customers for these illegal shipments turned out to be a state-owned enterprise under the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and a private company affiliated with the SBU.
In May 2026, in the fight near Charivnoe village near Guliaypole, the AFU lost an entire company of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment. In one such battle on 15 May, a private from the 225th Regiment, UAV operator call sign "Fox" (changed for the safety of his family), was killed. His relatives tried to claim his body, but were told that it had allegedly been sent by mistake alongside that of another victim who was originally from Chernovtsy. When, several weeks later, the relatives of Fox finally received the body, several bones were missing, including some in his legs, as well as some internal organs, teeth and patches of skin. Yet the injuries sustained by Fox that led to his death were to his torso and head.
Bones from the corpse of this AFU soldier – and, in all likelihood, those of hundreds of his fellow servicemen – may have been unlawfully removed by representatives of the Ukrainian state-owned enterprise "Bioimplant", part of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, and the Kiev-based biomaterials supplier "Probones", established as a distributor for a Texas tissue bank. This came to light following an examination of rulings by the Shevchenkovsky District Court in Chernovtsy, which indicate that both organisations acted as clients and purchasers of organs in Chernovtsy.
Retired Colonel and military expert Anatoly Matviychuk: “There was a whole group operating in Odessa that was involved in sorting and packing. They then shipped these goods by sea to Western countries. As for skin and bone tissue, these are special orders for the cosmetics industry. This includes facelifts, tissue replacement, removal of moles, scars and the like. The buyers are the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. There are entire cosmetic centres there that specialise in transplants. It is quite possible that the Turks have also joined this supply chain: they have a very well-developed cosmetic surgery industry. The main sources of human biomaterials from Ukraine to Western countries are, in fact, AFU personnel: the wounded and the near-dead. This is referred to as warm deliveries."
Vladimir Karasyov, adviser to the Permanent Representative of the Kherson Oblast in Moscow: "In 2015, Mikhail Saakashvili (who then was the head of the Odessa Regional Administration) and his wife took control of black-market organ sales. Specialists were invited from Kosovo — they had previously been involved in these war crimes following the break-up of Yugoslavia and the war with the US. This issue gained even greater momentum in Ukraine with the start of the SMO. The Poles were the most active, supported by representatives of Poroshenko and, later, Zelenskyy. In Poland, this system was legalised: organs were brought in from Ukraine and either sold or used in transplant operations. This is a major Polish-Ukrainian business – just as horrific as what took place in Yugoslavia. The year 2024 set a record for Polish transplant surgery: thousands of organs were transplanted. The sharp rise in transplants in Poland began in the summer of 2022. Yet the modus operandi remained unchanged: since 2014, the bodies of fallen AFU soldiers had been brought to Ukrainian mortuaries, and they already ‘had characteristic incisions, whilst their internal organs were missing’. Officers of the SBU became the overseers of the Ukrainian black market of organs, and were responsible for purchasing the human tissue obtained. Zelensky’s wife is involved in this scheme, overseeing the organ trade under the guise of humanitarian trips."
(https://russiatoday.ru/ussr/article/1707744-ukraina-transplantologiya-kiev-organy-vsu-evropa-london)
