Court sanctions arrest of Russian border guards, who got lost in Ukraine

18:58, 30.06.2017 1 min read

Ukraine's Kalanchak City Court has sanctioned arrest of two Russian border guards, who got lost in Ukraine, for 15 days, the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service told Interfax-Ukraine.

"Hearings of the Kalanchak City Court regarding two Russian servicemen have already been held. They were arrested for 15 days on the grounds of information provided by the State Border Guard Service," Oleh Slobobian, the spokesman for the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service, told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.

As reported, border guards of the Kherson detachment in cooperation with the Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen detained two unidentified persons without documents in the Kherson region in the early hours of June 30, 2017, and subsequently established that the detainees are servicemen of the Russian Security Service's Border Guard Service.