The control post of "birch" in the Donetsk region detained a career officer in the Russian army, said the state border service of Ukraine.
"About 22. 00 on 25 July, the Staff of state frontier service at the checkpoint "birch" tied " KAMAZ ", Packed full of ammunition ", ? leads RIA "Novosti" letter of Agency.
according to the Ukrainian border guards in the truck were boxes of ammunition of various calibres. It is specified that the car was accompanied by a major of the Russian army and the fighter of the Donetsk militia. Detainee truck, he said the state border service of Ukraine, went to the borderline with Russia from the territory controlled by the militia. At the moment on the post to understand the circumstances of the conflict there arrived Employees of the SBU, the interior Ministry and other law enforcement agencies. Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Andriy Taranov stated before about the fact that in the Donbass are like 9 thousand Russian military. According to him, this is confirmed by the recent arrest of Alexander Alexander and Evgeny Erofeev. Remember, may 17, the media reported the detention in the settlement Happiness of the military, who called himself a Russian contract soldiers serving in the special forces - Alexander of Alexander and Evgeny Erofeev. However, later the same day 1st Deputy commander of people's militia LNR Sergey Kozlov said that in reality the Kiev military won captured 2 soldiers of the people's militia of the Luhansk national Republic. The Russian defense Ministry has revealed that the detainees in Ukraine, the militia are former Russian military. In the Russian defense Ministry asked them to stop the torture and release of two former soldiers. Relatives of captured Russian citizens have also confirmed that they had resigned from the army. On may 22, a court in Kiev has arrested Alexander and Erofeev. They are charged with terrorism. On may 27, the Ukrainian media said that the Detainee under the Happiness of the citizen of Russia Alexander Alexandrov wants to cooperate with the investigation. However Erofeev to assist the investigation did not want to jail. Moscow has stated many times that it is not involved in the events in southeastern Ukraine, not a party to domestic incident and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia emphasize that all the charges against her are unproven.

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