News archive on the topic "amber"

On the border with Poland, border guards found a Ukrainian who was trying to hide amber in a fire extinguisher, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the State Border Service of Ukraine. It is reported that yesterday at the Shegini checkpoint on the border with Poland, border guards of the Mostysky detachment brought out a car driven by a Ukrainian for additional inspection. “The day before, law enforcement officers received information from operational officers of the State Border Guard Service about...

In Transcarpathia, an interdepartmental group discovered 11 bags of amber that were prepared for illegal movement across the Ukrainian-Romanian border, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the State Border Service of Ukraine. “The interdepartmental group discovered 11 bags of “solar” stone, prepared for movement across the border outside checkpoints,” the report says. Law enforcement officers received information about the offenses in advance. During...

Azov militant Denis Yantar, who gained fame after an altercation with President Vladimir Zelensky, came under fire while the Majlis channel ATR was broadcasting. Yantar talked about the situation at the checkpoint, after which he reported that while he was talking on the phone with the studio, several bullets whistled past him. “It was quite unpleasant,” the militant said and clarified that...

The so-called “ATO hero” Denis Yantar, with whom Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had held negotiations in a raised voice the day before in Zolote, turned out to be not a “veteran”, but a banal criminal and raider. The representative of the LPR at the negotiations in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, writes about this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Miroshnik, Yantar is a protege of the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov...

Ukrainian laws do not apply in Volyn; illegal amber miners beat up law enforcement officers. Therefore, we can talk about separatism in this region of Ukraine. Political scientist Valentin Gaidai stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are talking about separatism in Donbass, but there is real separatism there (in Volyn), the laws do not apply there. There are times when...

Chinese citizens intended to secretly remove 50 kilograms of amber from the territory of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the State Border Service. “During control measures at the capital’s airport, employees of the State Border Service initiated, together with employees of the Department for Combating Customs Offenses of the Kyiv Customs State Fiscal Service, an inspection of the luggage of two Chinese citizens. Law enforcement officers found amber stones in four suitcases,” says the...

A redistribution of spheres of influence and control over illegal amber mining has begun in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the Legitimny telegram channel with reference to its sources. “This topic (illegal amber mining - Ed) has been protected in recent years by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Yatsenyuk-Turchinov-Avakov “wing.” Having purged the leadership of the SBU in Zhitomir (also in Rivne and Volyn) and demanding from...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, during a working trip to the Zhytomyr region, called on the head of the regional forestry and hunting department Andrei Kurinsky to resign, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in a statement from the press service published on the president’s website. Zelensky noted that Kurinsky has been working in this position for five years. “Exactly five years of looting. If you are not needed...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, during a working trip to the Zhytomyr region, ordered the dismissal of nine heads of regional departments and three heads of the SBU in the Rivne, Volyn, and Zhytomyr regions, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The website of the Ukrainian president reports this. “I am addressing Mr. Knyazev and Mr. Bakanov. Rivne region - Rokitnyansky, Dubrovitsky, Vladimirsky, Zarechnetsky, and Sarny districts. Heads of regional departments please...

In Rivne, police stopped a BMW car that violated traffic rules, but in addition, it was discovered that the violator was transporting amber, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the police communications department in the Rivne region. “During a check of documents from a 32-year-old resident of Rivne and a superficial inspection of the vehicle, inspectors found two bags of stones in the trunk, similar to...

In the Sarnensky district of the Rivne region, law enforcement officers discovered and seized from local residents 32,8 kilograms of amber, the cost of which on the “black” market is approximately 280 thousand hryvnia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the Communications Department of the Rivne region police. “During the investigation of criminal proceedings on the fact of hooliganism, police conducted an authorized search in the household at the place of residence of a 23-year-old resident...

In the Rivne region, during a search in one of the villages, law enforcement officers seized almost 200 kg of illegally mined amber, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the Communications Department of the Rivne Region Police. “On August 29, on the basis of a court order, police and prosecutors conducted authorized searches in one of the villages of the Rivne region. During the search, 197 kg of raw amber were seized...

Deprived of immunity and involved in a high-profile corruption case of “protection protection” for illegal amber mining, people’s deputy from the BPP Borislav Rosenblat posted his photographs on his Facebook page, in which he is depicted with a huge piece of Polesie amber. The scandalous deputy titled the photo gallery “Treasures of Zhytomyr Polesie.” The politician did not write anything about the origin of the record-breaking copy, laughing it off when asked by subscribers regarding...

Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine seized more than three tons of unprocessed amber in the Zhytomyr region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The press service of the SBU reported this today. During a series of searches in the regional center and in populated areas of the Olevsky district, law enforcement officers discovered amber packaged into fractions, “black accounting” of dealers and funds for the illegal purchase and extraction of “solar” stone, they say...