The Ukrainian state border service reported about the detention of Russian Colonel
A soldier who was detained in early June, were sent to Transnistria, according to Kiev.
Moscow. July 10. INTERFAX.RU — the State border service of Ukraine say that more than a month ago when crossing the Ukrainian border was detained a Russian soldier who went to the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. As said the official representative of state frontier service Oleg Slobodyan, “the situation took place in early June.”
“Around midnight on departure from Ukraine there has arrived the citizen of Ukraine, Voitenko V. G., 54 years, who presented for control the passport of the citizen of Ukraine. While monitoring a second line from the shift supervisor of border duties is having doubts about the trip purpose of the citizen (he provided a telegram with PMR about the dire state of the health of the mother and was confused with the data of your passport),” wrote said in Facebook on Sunday evening.
For a detailed survey of the suspicious citizen at the checkpoint arrived officers of operating units of the state border service.
The man offered to show contents of pockets and Luggage. He pulled out of the pockets of mobile phone, which contained photos of rallies in Donetsk and Lugansk, money, bus tickets.
“As a result of a detailed examination of suspect things in his jacket was discovered the inner secret pocket, which was seized a sheet of paper with installation information and phone numbers of officials of the PMR and the Russian Federation, the order “Red star”, a mobile, flash-media,” — said Slobodyan.
He noted that the seized materials — photo and video from your smartphone — testify that detainee had been in the DNI and LC, where he met with the leadership of the armed forces of these territories controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
Approval Slobodyan, border guards managed to establish a real identity of the detainee.
“He was a Colonel of the Russian Federation of Valery Grata, 52 years, of which the Russian security services had planned to do “Deputy” Minister of state security of Transnistria”, — he wrote.
The detainee was handed over to the SBU, Slobodyan added.