Employees of the State Border Service seized the valuable entrance to the checkpoint of the entry-exit "Marinka". About this on Wednesday morning, May 17, on his Facebook page, said the Speaker of the State Border Service Oleg Slobodyan.

According to him, an interesting find was found yesterday. In the hands of the border guards there were not some trivial hidden goods or food, but a real work of art - the Stradivarius violin.

During the inspection of the VAZ car, on which a Ukrainian citizen was traveling from Donetsk, a border patrol in the luggage compartment discovered the old violin of 1730 of the issue. It is probably a cultural and historical value.

The border guards handed over both the citizen and the discovered musical instrument to the employees of the National Police for making a legal decision.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the Odessa region border services detained two cars with an illegal and smuggled cigarettes. The cars were stopped near the state border near the village of Fedoseevka. According to the press service of the State Emergency Service, two citizens of Ukraine and a citizen of Pakistan.