WARSAW: Ukraine customs arrested a Russian for smuggling 25,000 cigarettes hiding inside hollowed out tree trunks.
The cigarettes had been manufactured in Belarus and were heading to the address of a private company in Poland from where they were supposed to be shipped on to Germany and the UK.
But they were stopped by the Ukrainian custom officers at the Yagodyn checkpoint located on the Ukrainian side of Ukrainian-Polish border.
Ukrainian customs officials remove hundreds of packet of cigarettes which Russian smugglers tried to sneak across the border into Poland in hollowed out tree trunks.
