{"id":1399152,"date":"2026-05-29T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-operation-lasted-over-a-year-special-forces-eliminated-a-russian-smuggling-channel-through-the-black-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:13:07","slug":"the-operation-lasted-over-a-year-special-forces-eliminated-a-russian-smuggling-channel-through-the-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-operation-lasted-over-a-year-special-forces-eliminated-a-russian-smuggling-channel-through-the-black-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"The operation lasted over a year: special forces eliminated a Russian smuggling channel through the Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Main Intelligence Directorate reported the liquidation of a Russian smuggling channel through the Black Sea, which had been operating for over a year. As part of a special operation, law enforcement officers detained members of an organized group and seized counterfeit tobacco products, weapons, and a Russian UAV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/DIUkraine\/8576\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">by the press service<\/a> of the GUR.<\/p>\n<p> The department noted that the special operation was carried out by employees of the &#8220;Timur Special Unit&#8221; together with the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Navy. According to intelligence, the participants in the scheme were involved in smuggling excisable goods, illegally transporting people across the state border, and moving explosives from the territory of Abkhazia, which is controlled by the aggressor state of Russia.<\/p>\n<p> As part of the operational work, law enforcement officers documented the operation of a maritime smuggling channel through the Black Sea. The suspects used civilian vessels to transport large consignments of tobacco products, among which they hid weapons of destruction and Russian-made unmanned systems.<\/p>\n<p> According to the GUR, the organizers of the scheme tried to use the resources of the security and defense sector of Ukraine for the logistical support of illegal cargo in the area of Zmiiniy Island.<\/p>\n<p> During the final phase of the special operation, law enforcement officers detained members of the group while attempting to illegally smuggle a person across the state border of Ukraine and transport a new batch of contraband.<\/p>\n<p> As a result of searches in the Odessa and Chernivtsi regions, the following was seized:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> 1,800 boxes of counterfeit tobacco products;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> communication facilities and documentation;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> illegally converted automatic weapons;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Russian UAV with warhead. <\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1619143190221196%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=267&#038;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> The State Crime Investigation Department reported that investigative actions and procedural measures to bring the persons involved to criminal responsibility are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Main Intelligence Directorate reported the liquidation of a Russian smuggling channel through the Black Sea, which had been operating for over a year. As part of a special operation, law enforcement officers detained members of an organized group and seized counterfeit tobacco products, weapons, and a Russian UAV. This was reported by the press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1339870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1399152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}