Ukraine has become a “world hub” of smuggling cigarettes into Europe,

Ukraine has become a “world hub” of smuggling cigarettes into Europe, Aleksey Goncharuk, deputy chief of staff for President Zelenskiy said Friday at a meeting in Uzhgorod with customs officials. With Zelenskiy and Nefyodov in attendance, Goncharuk said: “From China, from the Emirates through Odessa, from Belarus, from Moldova, from uncontrolled territories through Ukraine, through wilderness areas, illegal cigarettes go to Europe.”