Contents tagged with refugee status

  • Russian citizen with frostbit limbs crosses the border of Ukraine asking for asylum

    Ukrainian border guards detained a Russian citizen who illegally crossed the state border in the Kharkiv region and asked for asylum in Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service said in a statement.

    “Yesterday, at noon, a senior inspector from the state border guard unit in Starytsia (Kharkiv region) received information from a local resident about a suspicious looking person moving from the Russian Federation to Ukraine. In a few minutes a border guard squad discovered and detained the Russian …

  • Russian family seeks asylum in Ukraine because of persecution over social media posts

    On the evening of July 1st, at one of the checkpoints on the border of Ukraine and Russia, a Russian family asked for refugee status in Ukraine, according to a press report from the State Border Service of Ukraine.

    It is reported that while passing through border control, a 32-year-old Russian citizen and his 33-year-old wife, also a Russian citizen, spoke to employees of the State Border Service of Ukraine and applied for refugee status. They came from a neighboring country, on foot, and with …