Russian border guard services expel to Ukraine four Ukrainian servicemen detained in Crimea in September
SIMFEROPOL. Nov 11 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service Department for the Republic of Crimea has expelled from Russia one border guard and three Ukrainian paratroopers who were detained in Crimea in September for breaching the state border regime, the press service for the Crimean Border Guard Department reported on Tuesday.
According to the Federal Security Service, Ukrainian State Border Guard Service serviceman Chulkov was expelled from Crimea on November 2. "According to eyewitnesses, after the Ukrainian border guard crossed the Russian state border and was already on the territory of Ukraine he was approached by a group of people in military uniform and they took his documents. He was later led into an office, which he left handcuffed several minutes later. He was put into a car. It is unknown what happened to him after that," the press release says.
Three servicemen from the 95th Mykolaiv separate aeromobile brigade (Yurov, Olenko and Mekshun) left Crimea on November 3. The Ukrainian servicemen were fined 2,000-4,000 rubles for violating the Russian state border and were handed over to their relatives.
"Ukraine flatly refused to participate in the procedure for handing the detainees over to their home country, as a result of which the servicemen could not return to their homeland for two months. The administration of the Russian Federal Security Service Department for the Republic of Crimea made a decision to involve the servicemen's close relatives in this procedure. On November 3, the relatives came to the territory of the Crimean Federal District and brought the detainees' documents with them, without which they could not have returned home," the press release says.