The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has reported a significant increase in the number of seizures of weapons on the border.
“The number of detained weapons on the state border both at check points, as well as on the ‘green border’ increased by 33%,” first deputy head of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Pavlo Shysholin reported at the press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
According to him, the matter concerns the detention of not just personal firearms, but the whole batches at checkpoints.
For example, according to Shysholin, on March 27, 2013 a Ukrainian citizen entering Ukraine attempted to smuggle in 11 guns at the Krakovets admission point. The border guards seized the weapons and passed them to employees of the Security Service of Ukraine for tests.
I can’t remember an attempt to smuggle such a big batch of weapons into Ukraine in the last two years,” Shysholin said.
Moreover, according to him, the border guards have also found special weapons that could be used in terrorist attacks.
According to the service, there has been no fall in the amount of ammunition sized on the border.
