The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has found no explosive device on board the plane flying from Dubai to Kyiv.

"SBU didn't find a bomb on the board the aircraft Dubai-Kyiv," reads the report of the SBU press centre posted on Twitter account on Friday.

SBU chief Oleksandr Tkachuk on Friday told Kyiv-based 112 TV channel that Ukrainian security services detained two Russians after receiving a report about an explosive device aboard the plane flying from Dubai to Kyiv.

"There were 149 passengers on board, one kid and seven members of the crew. Immediately after landing one of the passengers reported that there was an explosive on the plane and that he intended to detonate it," Tkachuk said.

He said the appropriate law-enforcement agencies promptly responded to this information.

"The aircraft has been pulled to an extra parking place, all passengers have been evacuated," he said. The Russian citizen who reported the bomb and another citizen of Russia involved are under arrest.

For its part, Kyiv airport press secretary Halyna Bohdanenko told the channel that the passenger, who reported about alleged bomb, was drunk when he made the announcement about the bomb 10 minutes before the plane landed..

"…Of course the plane was encircled, has been examined by the specialists for explosives. But nothing was found, and a passenger was arrested. The other passengers were registered for the next flight," she said.