As the head of supervision over the observance of laws by the Security Service, the State Customs villageluzhby and the State Border Service of Volyn oblast prosecutor Yuri Novosad, in May this year in the village council Manevychi found and stopped the illegal mining of amber group of people.

Jul 3, 2017 · In January in the town of Olesk in the Volyn Oblast – the informal capital of the Amber Republic – one person was killed and several were wounded as a result of clashes. Several dozens of attackers armed with automatic weapons were …

During the inspection of the scene of attackers seized five pumps of the equipment used for the extraction of raw amber, and the monththese people discovered the crime of membership of a criminal conspiracy, which carried out the general management of the traffic police.

Mining and Extraction Municipal Enterprise “Volynpryrodresurs” of the Volyn Regional Council was established in 2016 with the aim of exploring and developing mineral deposits in the Volyn region, such as amber, peat, and copper.

Zadovzhe Zarichnensky district of Rivne region group of persons without special permits and documents carried out illegal extraction of precious stones of organogenic origin - amber, which refers to the national mineralth value.

Apr 30, 2017 · Law enforcers in Volyn region seized more than one tonne of amber amid searches in the town of Volodymyr-Volynsky on the night of April 29, according to the press service of the regional prosecutor`s office.

Apr 29, 2017 · As UNIAN reported, after a police station in Rivne region was attacked, an operational headquarters has been coordinating the actions of the police and the National Guard to halt the illegal extraction of amber.

Jan 28, 2024 · In Rivne region, police exposed eight members of the group, including one of the local community members, who had set up illegal mining, processing and sale of amber and seized 200 kg of stones from them. According to preliminary data, the value of the amber is almost UAH 4.5 million.

Nov 28, 2015 · There’s a war in Ukraine that has nothing to do with Russia. This is a war over amber, as gangs in the Volyn and Polesie regions of western Ukraine illegally dig up tonnes of the gemstone while hundreds of police equipped with armoured personnel carriers try to stop them.

In the aftermath of previous mass illegal mining of amber, environmental deterioration remains in the deforested surrounding areas on January 20, 2023 in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. In the Rivne Oblast,... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images