Two fishermen from Berdiansk (Zaporizhia region), who went missing in the Sea of Azov for a day, have probably been detained by Russian border guards and stay in the city of Yeysk, the Krasnodar Krai, the press service of the main directorate of the State Emergency Service in Zaporizhia region has told Interfax-Ukraine.

According to the report, the wife of one of the two fishermen, who went to the Sea of Azov by a motorboat on May 10 and did not return, called the duty department of the Berdiansk department of the National Police at 18:26 on May 11.

The woman told the police that she had received a phone call from the Russian border guard service about the detention of her husband and his friend and that they stayed in the city of Yeysk, the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation.

Rescuers of the main directorate of the State Emergency Service in Zaporizhia region stopped the search operation.

As reported, on May 11, rescuers of the State Emergency Service in Zaporizhia region began an operation to search for two local fishermen who left for the Azov Sea more than a day ago and did not return.