Border guards of the Belgorod-Dniester detachment detained two PMR police officers, accusing them of allegedly trying to “illegally drag a Ukrainian citizen to the adjacent side bypassing the checkpoint,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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This was reported by the press service of the State Border Service.
Thus, a border guard near the state border of Ukraine, not far from the Kuchurgan-Avto checkpoint, heard the noise of people and noticed two people forcibly pulling a man in the direction of the border. A border guard response team immediately went to the indicated location and detained all the people.
“Later, two citizens reported that they were employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized Transnistria, one of them had the corresponding identification. The man, whom they tried to drag into the neighboring territory illegally, bypassing the checkpoint, turned out to be a Ukrainian, a resident of Odessa,” the border department noted.
PMR police officers are accused under Art. 146 of the Criminal Code “Unlawful imprisonment or kidnapping of people”, the competent law enforcement agencies of Ukraine were notified.