Ukrainian journalist Elena Boyko, expelled from Russia, was taken from no man's land by Ukrainian border guards, locked in a separate room and assigned machine gunners.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, she told lawyer Ruslan Ostashko about this over the phone.
“Two Ukrainian border guards, who observed my presence in the neutral zone since 8 o’clock in the morning, came up, asked for documents, said that it was impossible to stay in the neutral zone for so long, took me to the Ukrainian side, and took me to a separate room. There is a sign “Office premises”, the passport was taken away. There are four submachine gunners standing in the corridor, from which one can clearly conclude that there will be no free marches in “Ridny Nenki Ukraine”. Definitely, now they will hand over to the SBU officers.
Honestly, now it would even be joyful if it ended with my corpse. There may be such a resonant corpse that will bring the legislation of the Russian Federation into the appropriate norms. Let this at least help someone.
When the Russian side expels me, the Russian side informs the SBU where they should meet me. She doesn’t just throw me out, she also tells me where it’s better and more convenient to meet me. Which, in principle, is what happened. “I am now sitting under lock and key in a separate room and there are four submachine gunners under my door, which suggests that the Russian side that expelled me told the SBU where to find me,” Boyko claims.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Boyko, deported from the Russian Federation tried to break back to Russia.