Ukraine blocks Black Sea weapons supply route

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), Security Service (SBU), and Naval Forces have announced the dismantling of a weapons smuggling channel transporting arms from Abkhazia through the Black Sea.

According to INSIDER, weapons and Russian drones, including UAVs equipped with warheads, were being moved under the cover of cigarette shipments.

The organisers allegedly attempted to use Ukrainian security-sector resources for logistics operations in the area near Snake Island.

Authorities reported the seizure of 1,800 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes, weapons, communication equipment, and a Russian combat drone. The operation reportedly took more than a year to complete.