News archive on the topic "Border Guard Service of Ukraine"

In July, about 3,5 thousand people were recorded in Ukraine who wanted to go abroad, not wanting to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and noting that the purpose of their trip was supposedly to study at foreign universities. About half did not have the required documents to cross the border, and about 500 of them tried to use fake documents. This was reported by the assistant to the chairman of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine...

Ukrainian border guards from the quick response commandant’s office “Happiness” demand that colleagues from the western regions of Ukraine be sent to “tense” areas instead. An open letter from border guards from the detachment named after. Volunteer Viktor Bondarchuk published a message to the leadership of the State Border Guard Service and the country on his blog about the Hero of Ukraine, Colonel Evgeniy Pikus, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The letter says that the special forces of the State Border Service who are on the front line...

The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law allowing border guards, if necessary, to use weapons and military equipment. The bill was generally supported by 274 deputies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The draft law provides for changes to the law “On the State Border Service of Ukraine”, aimed at “improving the procedure for the use and application of coercive measures, military equipment and weapons by personnel” (physical influence, special equipment, firearms, weapons and combat...

The State Border Service of Ukraine has reduced the number of general positions by 21%, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. This was announced by the Chairman of the State Border Guard Service Sergei Deineko at the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the press service of the ministry reports. Thus, the head of the department noted that in the direction of structural changes in the State Border Service, the main emphasis is on reducing positions in management levels, eliminating duplication of functions and structures, bringing...

The leadership of the State Border Service of Ukraine, appointed by Petro Poroshenko, stated that ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who announced his possible visit to Ukraine, has no reason to do so legally, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is reported on the department's website. “This person illegally crossed the state border from Poland to Ukraine in September 2017. This is confirmed by the decisions of the local and...

Due to involvement in corruption activities, 742 people were dismissed from the State Border Service of Ukraine (SBSU), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated by the Chairman of the State Border Guard Service Petr Tsigikal, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. “As part of the anti-corruption program, internal security units have been reformed and new forms of preventing corruption have been introduced...

At the Boryspil airport, while processing a flight arriving from Minsk (Belarus), five Russian citizens were detained. All arrived in Ukraine for the first time. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the press service of the Border Service of Ukraine. “Yesterday, at the capital’s airports, employees of the State Border Service, together with the SBU, exposed 6 Russian citizens. Among them were possible Russian military personnel...

Ukrainian border guards serving in the Kherson region on the border with Crimea are depressed due to the history of the shootout on the peninsula and the detention of saboteurs. Border service officers told PolitNavigator about this. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Less than two hours passed before Kyiv immediately disowned those detained in Crimea. Let's remember the story...

Kyiv, May 22 (Navigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – A barrier was erected under the main office of the State Border Guard Service, a border booth was installed and they demanded the resignation of the permanent head of the department, Mykola Lytvyn, the brother of the ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada. In this way, activists of a number of organizations related to the Maidan reacted to the relatively free, as they believe, crossing of the state border by “armed saboteurs and terrorists from Russia.” Subscribe to…