Border guards of the “Salovka” department of the Chop detachment detained a group of people who were trying to get to Hungary bypassing checkpoints.

The movement of three unknown persons toward the state border was recorded by a border guard surveillance camera. Additional units with sniffer dogs were immediately sent to search for the suspected offenders.

As a result of search operations, one of the patrols noticed two men and a woman trying to overcome the barrier fence. During the detention, one of the men ran away. He was found in a nearby garden, but when he saw the border guards, he tried to escape again, but law enforcement officers immediately detained him.

Two of the offenders had passports of Ukrainian citizens, the woman was without documents. Law enforcement officers found out that she was also a citizen of Ukraine. It turned out that those three live in the city of Chop and decided to sneak across the border to Hungary bypassing checkpoints, in search of better living conditions, as they said.

The detainees were taken to the border guard unit. After establishing all the circumstances of the offense, they will be brought to administrative responsibility for attempting to illegally cross the state border of Ukraine.