Moscow gave Kiev 2 Ukrainian border guards in Exchange for 2 Russian, told in FSB.

The exchange took place in the area of the checkpoint "nehoteevka" in the Belgorod region. The Ukrainian side has given Russia the border guards of Vladimir Kuznetsov and Askar Koulouba contained in the Kherson pre-trial detention since June last year.

Kiev gave the officers of the State border service Igor and Bogdan Jubaka Marcona, arrested last October for illegally crossing the Russian border.

Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said That the Russian leadership is satisfied with the completion of the exchange and the return of Russian border guards to their homeland. Detention guards

the FSB reported That two Crimean border guards on the night of June 30, strayed from the route and went to the Ukraine. The Ministry commented on the Russian-Ukrainian border training exercises. The incident happened near Armyansk.

The Ukrainian intelligence services argued That the Deputy chief of the reserve of the Outpost, a military unit Askar Kulov and the chief of film logical group Vladimir Kuznetsov December 2016 to 30 June 2017 "carried out service tasks in the interests of Russia" to change the Ukrainian border.

As for the Ukrainian border guards, in early October, they went to the Russian territory during the "monitoring the border with Russia" and was captured Bryansk colleagues. Then, they were charged with illegal border crossing. The Ukrainian government told about the kidnapping.

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