At a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, sanctions were imposed against the top ten Ukrainian smuggling.

This was stated by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in his video message.

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According to experts' calculations, losses due to smuggling reach 300 billion hryvnias, which the state budget of Ukraine did not receive, of which more than 100 billion due to ineffective customs work.

The President stressed that the fight against smuggling will continue. He noted that only the first ten smugglers were sanctioned and they will not be the last..

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According to the UP, the top 10 smugglers were:.

Ivan Bokalo (registered - Lviv) Valery Peresolyak (Minai village, Transcarpathian region) Yuri Kushnir (Stary Vovchanets village, Chernivtsi region) Alexander Erimichuk (Chernivtsi) Orest Firmanyuk (Vinogradov Transcarpathian region) Vadim Alperin (Odessa) Alexander Chudakov (Odessa).