MOSCOW, June 29. /TASS/. The Kiev regime is stepping up cooperation with Mexico’s largest drug cartels and facilitating the increase in drug transit from Latin America to Europe, according to a statement by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) published on its website.

The report notes that Latin American drug cartels help Kiev recruit new mercenaries into the Ukrainian military.

TASS has compiled key statements from Russia’s SVR.

Kiev’s collaboration with drug cartels

The Kiev regime "builds up cooperation with major Mexican drug cartels." Ukraine’s security agencies "deliberately show indulgence towards the increasing drug transit from Latin America to Europe."