Transcarpathian smugglers to be sent to fight in Donbas

Three smugglers caught red-handed will be sent to the military enlistment office for mobilization, head of the Transcarpathian regional authorities Hennadiy Moskal said. “Since last week the Transcarpathian region has been actively searching for places used to hide illegal migrants and tobacco products intended for smuggling. For the past two days three local residents who tried to traffic six boxes of cigarettes across the border were detained on the green border. The cigarettes were seized and the detainees [men of recruitment age] were sent to the military enlistment office for mobilization in the Ukrainian armed forces,” the regional head’s website said in a statement. Monday, July 20, six boxes of cigarettes were found in a cargo wagon of the train which was delivering the ore abroad. The law enforcers are searching for masterminds of this smuggling scheme. It was also reported that a hang-glider was detected near the border, took off and headed for Slovakia when the border guards began approaching. The regional chief said that the number of smuggling attempts had dropped sharply in the Trans-Carpathian Region as compared with the previous reported period. Meanwhile, employees of military enlistment offices cannot find people put on the law enforcement database as smugglers [there are 2,500 of them in the region] to hand draft notices to them. The sixth wave of mobilization has been fulfilled only by 10% in the Transcarpathian region by now.

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