If in 2019 border guards stopped 30 illegal machinations with amber - attempts to export illegally from Ukraine, mostly, then in 2020 they stopped 16 such attempts.

If in 2019 border guards stopped 30 illegal machinations with amber - attempts to export illegally from Ukraine, mostly, then in 2020 they stopped 16 such attempts.

The reduction is quite logical, considering that in 2020 passenger traffic at the border decreased three times.

However, in the total mass of amber smuggling, the tendency to decrease is not so significant. If in 2019 border guards detained more than 680 kg of “sun stone”, then in 2020 - almost 595 kilograms of semiprecious stones. The most part of amber seized last year - more than 3 centners - was welded in the fuel tanks of one truck.