Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine have detained a deserter in the capital, who hid before in the annexed Crimea. This is stated in a message of the press service of the Security Service in the social network Facebook.

It is known that the SBU, together with the military prosecutor's office and military service, detained a deserter in Kiev, as well as a communications commander-the commander of the howitzer artillery battalion-also specified in the message. In addition, it is known that the military in August 2015. arbitrarily left the military unit in the Donetsk region and went to the territory of the annexed Crimea.

As reported URA-Inform, in November, a deserter was detained in Sumy region.