In the Odessa region, a serviceman who escaped from a training unit attacked a border guard. The latter used a weapon and shot the attacker.
This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation.
What is known about the incident
14 July in the Zakharovsky district of the Odessa region, four servicemen escaped from a training unit and tried to cross the state border into Moldova. All four arrived at the intersection by taxi. It was during the attempt to cross the border that the border guards noticed the fugitives and detained them.
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However, one of the servicemen decided to run away and attacked the border guard. The latter responded with his service weapon and shot the attacker.
The State Bureau of Investigation opened criminal proceedings into the death of a serviceman. An investigation is now underway, all the circumstances of the incident are being established.
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What they say in the State Border Service
In a comment to ICTV Facts, a representative of the State Border Service Andrey Demchenko said that last night border guards stopped a car where, in addition to the driver, there were four people. The two immediately ran in different directions. Border guards went looking for them.
One of these two fugitives attacked the border guard. The latter first fired warning shots and then shot at the attacker. Subsequently, doctors who arrived at the scene of the incident confirmed the death of the fugitive offender, and also recorded injuries to a serviceman of the State Border Guard Service.
— The information that began to spread on certain resources that the border guard opened fire with a pistol in pursuit of the fugitive does not correspond to reality, — noted by Andrey Demchenko.
According to him, along the entire length of the state border, unfortunately, this is not the first case of attacks on border guards, as a result of which servicemen of the State Border Guard Service are forced to use weapons to preserve their lives and health.
It was previously reported that border guards detained a minibus with 17 men who were trying to illegally travel to Hungary.
