Ukraine's Border Guards Discover WW1 Weapons Cache

By Matthew Moss

(Ukraine Border Guard Service)

While Ukraine may be embroiled in a bitter conflict with Russia, a discovery on the Polish-Ukrainian border is a reminder that the region has been fought over many times during its history.On 26 September, the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service announced that while patrolling the Ukrainian-Polish-Slovakian border area, in the Uzhhorod region, members of the service’s Stuzhytsia detachment discovered a large cache of weapons.

The remains of more than 70 Mosin-Nagant rifles (Ukraine Border Guard Service)

Ammunition still with some of its original packaging surviving (Ukraine Border Guard Service)

According to a post on the Western Regional Directorate of the Border Guard Service’s Facebook page the outline of a rifle was spotted and after some excavation 75 M1891 Mosin-Nagant rifles, 3 hand grenades and around 4,500 rounds of ammunition were found. The 7.62x54mmR ammunition was found still

Source: The Firearm Blog