The largest batch of contraband silver in the past several years has been discovered at the "Yahodyn-avto" checkpoint in the Volyn region. A border and customs detail drew attention to a "Honda" vehicle with Lithuanian license plates that was leaving Ukraine.

In the elite dacha settlement of Koncha-Zaspa on Friday morning, former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko was found dead at a dacha.

In Lutsk, an extremely severe flood is expected. Hydrometeorologists forecast sudden warming, which will cause rapid snow melting. The temperature at the beginning of March is 5-7 degrees below normal and will remain so for another 10 days. But when the warming comes, the sun will be high.

At the Ivanychi Sugar Plant, several years ago there was an unpleasant incident when, using forged documents, criminals stole a railcar of sugar.

The result of the crisis at the Polish-Ukrainian border will be a simplification of border crossing conditions for trucks. Negotiations are now underway between the leadership of the Yahodyn Customs and the leadership of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.

SBU officers at 16:12 on Tuesday, March 1, at the international airport "Boryspil" detained a person who was transporting a container with radioactive substance ("Uranium-238", mass - 582 grams) in a Volkswagen car. This is stated in a report by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

This year, specialists predict that the level of flood waters will be 1.5 meters higher than is typical for this time of year. They see a particular danger in the suddenness of the thawed-water overflow.

The State Customs Service has essentially returned to the normal regime (in quantitative terms) for cargo cleared into Ukraine, however a problem remains with vehicles that did not enter Ukraine during Saturday.

According to the Hydrometeorological Center, slow snowmelt, formation of surface meltwater and rainwater runoff will occur over most of the region's territory, and rises in water levels on rivers and ice melting are expected.

On the night of February 23-24, as a result of worsening weather conditions (snowfall and wet snow sticking) and due to the activation of automatic emergency protection systems of power lines, 128 settlements in 3 regions of Ukraine were left without power.