Border guards of Mukachevo Border Guard Detachment in cooperation with the officers the National Police have detained ten people near the Romanian border at dawn today.

Nine men, accompanied by a local female smuggler, intended to illegally cross the border on the outskirts of the village of Yablunivka.

The border guards received information from the representatives of the Operational and Investigative Department on the attempt of the illegal border crossing. Later the border patrol managed to spot the offenders using a thermal imaging device. The violators were detained at a distance of 500 meters from the state border.

Six of the nine detainees were residents of Transcarpathian region, the remaining three were from Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Chernivtsi regions.

Protocols on administrative offence were drawn up against each of the detainees. Currently, there is an investigation into the case aimed to identify persons involved in the organization of the above-mentioned illegal border crossing.