The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has against stated that the individuals detained in the United States on suspicion of illegally exporting high-tech microelectronic equipment from the United States to Russia do not include Ukrainian citizens.

"In response to reports in the media on the consideration of the case of individuals detained in the United States on suspicion of illegally exporting high-tech microelectronic equipment from the United States to Russia, and on the presence of a woman with Ukrainian citizenship among them, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine once again stresses that there are no Ukrainians among the detainees," Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

He added that there among the detainees there is a woman that was born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, but now she has U.S. citizenship.

"She does not have any other documents confirming that she has any other citizenship," he said.

As reported, on October 3, the U.S. authorities brought charges against 11 people in a case on the illegal export of high-tech microelectronic devices from the United States to Russia. Eight people are in the United States, and they were taken into custody under a Houston court ruling.

Charges were also brought against three citizens in Moscow.

Russian Consul General in Houston Alexander Zakharov said that of the eight people detained by U.S. law enforcement agencies, four are Russians and the rest are citizens of Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

On October 6, Sergei Azizov, a deputy Russian consul general in Houston, said that "U.S. citizen Zagon, who believed she also had Ukrainian citizenship, which, as it turned out, she did not, has been granted bail and allowed to remain under house arrest with an electronic tag."

On October 8, the court revised its decision and ruled to arrest Svitalina Zagon.