Thirteen migrants detained on Ukraine’s western border

Thirteen migrants detained on Ukraine’s western border

UNIAN news agency
2 Aug 05

Kiev, 2 August: Servicemen of the State Border Service have detained 13
illegal migrants on the border stretch patrolled by the Chop detachment
[Transcarpathian Region].

The public relations department of the State Border Service said
that there were six Vietnamese nationals, six Russian citizens from
Chechnya and one Armenian among the detainees.

The Vietnamese migrants were stopped by a detail from the Stuzhytsya
checkpoint 2.5 kilometres from the state border. Later, border guards
of the Onokivtsi checkpoint detained the Armenian, who got as close as
800 metres to the border. The Chechens, who wanted to get to Slovakia,
were stopped 600 metres from the border.