Russia and the United States destroyed four drug laboratories in their first joint anti-drug operation in Afghanistan, Russia’s top drug control official has revealed.
Viktor Ivanov said the unprecedented joint operation hit four laboratories near the border with Pakistan, caused up to $1 billion in damage to the wider drug trade
Mr Ivanov says they seized up to 200 million doses of heroin.
Leaders of the Cold War enemies believe cooperation in Afghanistan can expand as both countries concentrate on terrorism and drug exports.
So far it has mostly been limited to Russia providing its territory for U.S. military transit.
The raid destroyed three heroin labs and one morphine lab, which were located about three miles from the Pakistan border at an important drug trafficking crossroads, Ivanov said.
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