Russia seized dozens of kilograms of explosives at the border with Latvia, the FSB security service said on Tuesday.

The explosives were reportedly found "hidden" inside Orthodox Christian religious icons during a cargo inspection in the Pskov region near the Latvian border.

The FSB said the cargo was "part of the cross-border traffic of explosives from Ukraine through the European Union," and claimed that the cargo had passed through Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

One person was arrested.

zc/rc (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)