A group of American Marines, EN route to Ukraine, was detained in Austria because of the issues with the documents, said on Thursday the official representative of the European command of the U.S. armed forces Colonel David Westover.

first Austrian media reported about what was said about nine American soldiers who were busted at the airport with provodivshihsya illegal weapons.

"This Group was headed out on a passenger plane in Ukraine to participate in exercise Saber Guardian-2015 and arrived in Vienna on July 19. Due to inadvertent oversights of the necessary documents for transit through Austria were not issued in a timely manner, " said Westover.

He drew attention to the fact that the Austrian authorities were very helpful in resolving this issue." Currently, according to his statement, these Marines returned to their base in Alaska."

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