Ukraine sent Russia a note of protest in connection with the detention of special forces

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine sent a note to the Russian side in connection with the detention of Russian troops captain Evgeny Erofeev and Sergeant Alexander Alexandrov in eastern Ukraine. This was stated at a briefing by the ambassador on special assignments Dmitry Kuleb, UNIAN reports .

“Today, the official note of protest was sent to the Russian Foreign Ministry, since the detention of these two military personnel - Erofeev and Alexandrov - is visual evidence of all those violations of international law that occur from the Russian Federation in the context of its aggression against Ukraine,” the ambassador said. “This is not just an argument, but the failed fact that Russian troops are present in Ukraine, and we are waiting for adequate and argmic explanations Russian Federation, how it happened. "

According to Kuleba, the Ukrainian side emphasizes that the stay of Russian troops in Ukraine and their participation in combat clashes with the ATO forces cast in question the intention of the Russian side relative to the conscientious implementation of the Minsk agreements.

On Tuesday, the Security Service of Ukraine published a video of the interrogations of detained military personnel. Erofeev confirmed that he serves in the 3rd separate guards brigade of special purpose. Alexandrov also admitted that he was serving in this part. In the Lugansk region, they were relocated in early April as part of a group of 220 people.

Meanwhile, the head of the SBU Valentin Nalvaichenko said that the detained Russian saboteurs are not subject to exchanging, Ligabusinessinform reports .

"They are waiting for criminal liability, investigators work with them. They must answer under Article 258 of the Criminal Code - terrorist activities and terrorist crimes," he said. According to Nalvaichenko, in the near future, perhaps, permission of the president will be obtained to represent "convincing evidence that it was the citizens of the Russian Federation, the military personnel of the Russian Federation in the Luhansk region committed terrorist attacks."

Representatives of the OSCE, Amnesty International and the Monitoring Mission of the European Union were admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital under the protection of Erofeev and Aleksandrov, reports Gromadska.TV.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense officially recognized the fact of the detention of Russian citizens who have military training in Ukraine. At the same time, it is argued that by this time they were no longer in the actual service .

“The citizens of Russia Alexander Aleksandrov and Evgeny Erofeev captured by the SBU in the Luhansk region at the time of their detention were not currently operating military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” said Major General Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense. “We checked the information of the Ukrainian side, these guys previously served in one of the formations of the RF Armed Forces and have military training.”

Meanwhile, the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russian military personnel of the 3rd special forces brigade urgently leave the city of Bryanka in the Luhansk region. The personnel of the connection is returned to the permanent deployment point in Togliatti.

"It is noteworthy that the relocation of the Russian special forces began immediately as soon as the Ukrainian side demonstrated the indisputable fact of the presence of Russian troops in the east of Ukraine. Thus, the Russian Federation is trying to hide the fact of the presence of its military personnel in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and their participation in the combat operations against the Ukrainian military," the General Staff said.

On Sunday, in the area of ​​the city of Happiness in the Lugansk region , Alexandrov and Erofeev were captured . They were going to check the data on the retreat of the Aidar battalion out of happiness. There was a battle in which military personnel of the 92nd mechanized brigade and military personnel of the Aidar battalion took part. After the separatists realized that the special forces were captured, mortar shelling began.