By the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the Pakistani drug mafia had become the largest regional producer of heroin, and a network of laboratories for the production of high-quality drugs was being created in the city of Chitral. The drug business infrastructure is laid at the junction of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the new route is focused on the administrative centers of the Urals, Volga region, Siberia and the Far East. GRU intelligence officers developed an operation to establish control over the transshipment base, and army brigades and battalions stood in the way of murderous drug trafficking to the death...