TBILISI. Feb 5 (Interfax) - The Georgian State Security Service has reported preventing an attempt to smuggle an explosive substance and explosive devices from Ukraine to Russia via Georgian territory.
Officers of the State Security Service's counterterrorism center have seized 14 kilos of explosives, which were brought into Georgia on January 19 via the Sarpi checkpoint on the Turkish border from Ukraine's Odessa via Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey, the Security Service said on Monday.
The explosives were discovered in a minivan belonging to a Ukrainian citizen and were supposedly meant to be smuggled to Russia's Voronezh through the Darial checkpoint on the Georgian-Russian border, it said.