11 Aug 2016 18:45

Ukrainian Security Service blocked several ISIL transit routes

KYIV. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Several transit routes used by ISIL (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) foreign militants traveling across Ukraine have been blocked by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), jointly with prosecutors, police and the migration service.

Security officers discovered foreign militants in Kharkiv, Dnipro [formerly Dnipropetrovsk] and the Kyiv region, the SBU said in a statement on Thursday. In Ukraine, they had been waiting to travel on to Syria.