During the 5 days of fighting against the aggressor, people have not just left Ukraine: almost 80,000 of our compatriots have returned to their homeland, most of them men.
Ukrainian border guard service together with the Ukrainian armed forces exhaust all the possibilities to get any information on the fate of the border guards and marines, who bravely defended Zmiinyi island.
With the assistance of the international humanitarian organisations, the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) plans to try to obtain lists of the defenders of the Snake island who may be in captivity, according to Russian media.
The Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Serhiy Deyneko, sent an official letter to his counterpart from the Republic of Belarus emphasising that Belarus was waging war against Ukraine together with Russia.
On Wednesday, August 17 the State Border Guard Service released a statement to say that the attempts to block the operation of the Service in the times of hybrid war are unacceptable.
Searches are being carried out in the Kyiv office of the State Border Guard Service on Tuesday morning, August 16, in the case of deforestation near the state border in Transcarpathia, sources have informed Ukrayinska Pravda.
At about midnight on August 8, the land crossing at Kalanchak checkpoint was suspended again on the side of the annexed Crimea, spokesperson for the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service Oleh Slobodyan informs on Facebook on Monday morning.
At about 7am on Sunday, August 7 the Russian authorities suspended border crossings for individuals and vehicles at the administrative border with Crimea for undisclosed reasons.
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine informs that more than 840 cars are stuck at the border control points of the state border between Ukraine and Poland
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine claims that “Russian occupiers are using an aerostat on the administrative border with Crimea,” allegedly for video surveillance.
The Kramatorsk unit of the Ukrainian Border Guards arrested a DNR militant who has Russian citizenship at Marinka checkpoint on July 11, the press service of the State Border Service reports.