The staff of the Federal service for control over drug trafficking (FSKN) Russia for a year and a half tied more than 1,300 Residents of Ukraine, engaged in the sale of drugs within the Russian Federation, said on the first day of the week the head of service Victor Ivanov.

"We last year were prosecuted under the criminal code 853 citizen of Ukraine, who were engaged in the sale of psychoactive substances in the regions of Russia," Ivanov told on air of TV channel " Russia-24 ".

He added that for the first six months of 2015 the Federal drug control service arrested more than five hundred Residents of Ukraine for the sale of drugs.

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