MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has closed down a route used by a group of Russian and Ukrainian citizens to smuggle weapons from Europe into Russia across Ukraine.
Officers of Russia's FSB detained citizens of Ukraine and Russia, who are members of an organized criminal group, at the Donetsk-Izvarino international vehicle crossing point (Rostov region) at the state border of the Russian Federation on March 17," an FSB spokesman told Interfax on Thursday.
Twelve Beretta, Desert Eagle, Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer, MAB, CA-XD and other foreign-made pistols were confiscated from their car.