Customs officers of Belarus, together with the KGB helped to uncover the scheme for the transfer of weapons from Ukraine to the Russian Federation by transit through the territory of the Republic, said the head of the Belarusian State customs Department (SCC) Yuri Senko. "We, along with the security Committee worked through the data when from Ukraine by transit through Belarus was moving parts of the weapon in Lithuania and from this place the larger quantities moved (weapons - ed.) in Russia," said Senko in the interview to television channel "Belarus 1" on the first day of the week. according to his statement, later in the Russian Federation at the completion of this special operation has identified a large number of weapons." This and machines, and guns, and small arms in the form of rifles, This large number, about nine thousand ammunition. The whole inventory were selected by the security services within the Russian Federation ", - said the head of the SCC. He also revealed That with increasing number of people wishing to cross the border increase and trying to move the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. For example, According to Senko, in Belarus in the first eight months was initiated 129 criminal cases on the facts of illegal moving of narcotic substances." Tellingly, four times by weight the number of drugs more than in the same period last year: in practice 626 kilos seized against 155 last year, " said Senko. Thus, According to the head of the Department, the vast majority of the selected drugs intended for the Russian recipients and carried them to Russian carriers. in early autumn, the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, speaking in Minsk at international conference on the battle against crime through innovative approaches, said That the Republic was forced to "tightly close" the border with Ukraine due to the gushing flow of arms. Before Lukashenko has ordered to strengthen protection of the southern borders of the country and did not exclude possible increase in the number of border guards on the border line with Ukraine, as the Belarusian authorities see " how much of this place is now in trouble for Belarus, and among them weapons smuggled ". According to information of the state border Committee, the Belarusian border guards in 2018 confiscated at the border line with Ukraine more than 800 76 ammunition and weapons. <span style="color:darkgray