FSB officers, together with the FCS, have blocked the channel for smuggling explosive devices and explosives in Orthodox icons and church utensils into Russia from Ukraine through the EU countries, APA reports citing Pravda.
During the inspection of a car by FSB officers at the Ubylinka international automobile checkpoint (Pskov region, Latvian-Russian section of the state border), a batch of Orthodox icons and church utensils from Ukraine imported into the Russian Federation was found to contain explosives of foreign manufacture.
In total, 27 icon-camouflaged and ready-to-use improvised explosive devices, 70 kg of industrially manufactured high-power plastic explosive, 91 electric detonators and parts of an RPG-7 shot were recovered from the cargo en route Ukraine - Romania - Hungary - Slovakia - Poland - Lithuania - Latvia - Russia.
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