On this on Wednesday, October 4, said the first deputy chairman of the State Border Service of Ukraine Vasily Servatyuk. According to him, our border guards found a car of missing employees near the state border line.

After this, the SBSU appealed to the Russian border guards and there they confirmed the detention of two Ukrainian citizens. At the same time, they explained that they are servicemen of the SBS.

After that, the Russian side was asked to provide the relevant documents, which would be confirmed by the faces of the detainees, but there they assured that they will return our border guards and tomorrow we are planning a meeting, as a result of which we expect that the return of the Ukrainian border guards will be effected,.

He also added that an investigation will be carried out into the reasons for their detention.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, October 3, two officers of the department of the border service "Znob-Novgorod" Sumy border detachment disappeared during the monitoring of the state border. On the fact of the disappearance of two border guards in the Sumy region criminal case was opened.