As the Hungarian says: Clever! The Ukrainian border guards found a 300-meter-long "vodka pipeline", the end of which led to Moldova. I load it here, I sell it there, maybe this is also a "Friendship wire"? The imagination of smugglers is inexhaustible.
According to the official announcement, the pipeline was heading towards the house of a 32-year-old Ukrainian citizen, reports Origo based on Vice's report. The newly discovered line was part of the network built during the Soviet Union. This was used by smugglers to transport cheap Russian vodka abroad and then sell it there at a high profit.
It is therefore not at all rare to discover such wires. In 2003, a one and a half kilometer long similar pipeline was found between Belarus and Lithuania. And in 2013, a more than 3 kilometer long pipeline was discovered between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
The Ukrainian government announced that the circumstances surrounding the construction of the newly discovered pipeline would be investigated and then dismantled.
