A member of the organization Right Sector, which is banned in Russia, has been detained in Donetsk, the press service for the State Security Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said.

"The DPR State Security Ministry has detained Liliya Romanivna Kots, 28, a citizen of Ukraine, a native of the village of Novy-Rozdil, Lviv region," the press service told reporters on Wednesday.

"It has been determined that citizen Liliya Romanivna Kots, being an active member of the […] Right Sector and OUN, arrived in the territory of the republic on an assignment from these organizations to organize the abduction of a serviceman of the DPR Armed Forces," an official with the DPR State Security Ministry said.