Game without borders

Employees of the Ukrainian State Border Service detained in the Kherson region on the administrative border with the annexed Crimea of ​​two Russian border guards. This was written on his page by the head of the department Viktor Nazarenko.

According to Nazarenko, the employees of the Kherson border detachment, together with the military, detained two unknown people near the Perekop Gulf. Nearby, the security forces found a boat on which the detainees reached the shore.

According to the head of the State Border Service, during the survey, the detainees introduced themselves as military personnel of the FSB border service. They explained that during the exercises they played the role of border violators, but went astray and accidentally ended up on the mainland of Ukraine.

Later, the representative of the Ukrainian border department, Oleg Slobodyan, said that the FSB border guards sent an appeal to the Ukrainian border guards with a request to provide information about their military. “Formally, in this way they confirmed that their servicemen were lost in Ukraine,” Interfax -Ukraine quoted Slobodyan.

Later, the FSB officially confirmed the version that border guards were lost during the exercises. The department expressed the hope that "in accordance with the norms of international legislation, employees of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia will soon be returned to the territory of the Russian Federation."

On the same day, the Kalanchak district court of the Kherson region arrested detained Russians for 15 days. As we might assume, they were attracted under article 204-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine (illegal crossing of the border).

In September 2015, in the Lugansk region, Ukrainian border guards detained two Russians in military uniform without identification marks. They were charged with an administrative article on the illegal crossing of the border and arrested for 15 days.