article_snippet: Russian smugglers came up with an original way to bring cigarettes into the West by hiding thousands of Russian smugglers inside hollowed out tree trunks.
article_snippet: cigarettes had been manufactured in Belarus and were heading to the address of a private company in Poland from where cigarettes were supposed to be shipped on to Germany and the UK.
article_snippet: But cigarettes were stopped by the Ukrainian custom officers at the Yagodyn checkpoint located on the Ukrainian side of Ukrainian-Polish border.
article_snippet: Ukrainian customs officials remove hundreds of packet of cigarettes which Russian smugglers tried to sneak across the border into Poland in hollowed out tree trunks .
article_snippet: cigarettes had been made in Belarus and were heading to the address of a private company in Poland .
article_snippet: The haul was recovered the other side of the country from the war-torn east.
highlights_snippet: Russian smugglers tried to sneak load into Poland at Yagodyn checkpoint .
  
highlights_snippet: Russian smugglers were supposed to be shipped on to Germany on the way to the UK .
  