Contents tagged with Border Guards

  • Ukrainian state border guards refused thousands of dollars in bribes in 2017

    Officers of the State Border Guard Service, during 2017, have been offered over UAH 1 million ($35,440 USD) in bribes, which they turned down, the press service of the State Border Guard reported.

    “Last year officers of the State Border Guard Service completed and filed with the National Police more than a thousand crime alerts under article 369 of the Penal Code (offering, promising, or rendering unlawful benefits to an official),” the statement read.

    In 2018, the first attempt to bribe …

  • Media: Abduction of Ukrainian border guards planned by Russians for two months

    The abduction of Ukrainian border guards was a Russian special operation, the Russians’ relevant conversations were recorded over the course of two months until the disappearance of Ukrainian border guards Bohdan Martson and Ihor Dziubak, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.

    According to the news outlet’s sources, Ukrainians recorded the Russians’ conversations in which they were assigned the task of capturing two Ukrainian border guards.

    “Precisely this fact gives the law enforcement agencies reason …

  • Ukrainian border guards conduct drills close to border with Crimea

    The personnel of the operational-combat border commandant of the Berdyansk squad are conducting training close to the border with the Crimea in the Henichesk region of the Kherson province, the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported.

    The training of the soldiers is being done in order to improve their mastery of firing various types of weapons. The border guards have also worked on elements of tactical medicine.

    Additionally, the fighters were deployed in combat …

  • Ukrainian border guards stationed near Crimea accused of corruption scheme

    The ban on the supply of Ukrainian goods to Crimea has resulted in corruption schemes along the administrative border with the peninsula.  This was reported to Krim.Realii by the head of a human rights group, Olga Skrypnyk.  This ban was imposed by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1035 which details “restrictions of some goods and services in the annexed Crimea and out of the annexed Crimea.”

    According to Skrypnyk, the scheme entails the use of illicit means to collect …