Two motor cars, Ford and Opel, were stopped by a joint duty of Horodnya mobile border post and SSU officers on Horodnya-Chernihiv highway, 12 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border. The law-enforcement officers had information on possible delivery of illegal migrants by those vehicles. In the cars driven by Kyiv residents, the officers really found seven nationals of Somalia and two Afghan citizens.

An attempt of smuggling into Ukraine of Japanese-made motor vehicles was prevented by border guards and customs officers in Lviv oblast. Two disassembled motorcycles and a scooter was hidden from control by a 45-years-old resident of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast who was coming back in his Mercedes minibus from Poland via Smilnytsya border checkpoint.

Preparations for muscle mass growth were found by border guards and customs officers in Odesa oblast when a Chisinau-Stary Oskol route bus was undergoing clearance procedures in Kuchurgan border checkpoint. The steroids - 5000 Oximetholone pills and 30 Sanozeline ampoules - were hidden under the Mercedes doors in a drinking water boiler.

Іn Volyn oblast, officers of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine had to quiet down a debauching smuggler. The 48-years-old Belarusian citizen was driving to Ukraine in an Audi-100 car through Domanove border checkpoint, but after having received a control accounting voucher for border and customs control he changed his mind.

A Turkish fishing schooner has been apprehended by Ukrainian border guards. Podillya, the Sea Guard ship, found Ozgur fishing vessel (under Turkey's flag) 50 miles to southeast from Zmiyiny Island in the Ukrainian economic zone. After appropriate stop signals were sent the schooner stopped, and an inspection group boarded it.