ARMS SMUGGLING INCREASES IN UKRAINE.

Ukrainian border guardsconfiscated almost 10,000 firearms and two million pieces of ammunitionfrom smugglers bringing them from "hot spots" like theCaucasus, Vseukrainskiye vedomosti reported July 12. Thepaper said that this influx across the border, rather than theftfrom the Ukrainian army, was behind the rise in the number ofillegally-held guns in Ukraine. And it noted that the smugglersare becoming ever more clever, "putting pistols inside televisionsets or in containers with powdered milk."

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