Wanted to lie down: a Ukrainian who fought on the side of the Russian Armed Forces tried to escape to the EU (photo, video)

Employees of the Department of Criminal Investigation of the National Police and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine arrived at the crossing point across the state border of Ukraine in Shehyny, where the border guards of the Republic of Lithuania were waiting for them. Foreign colleagues handed over to our law enforcement officers a migrant who tried to enter the European Union on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border using a Ukrainian passport, the National Police said.

After the Russian occupation of Crimea, the man left for the peninsula, where he obtained Russian citizenship, joined the United Russia party, and with the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine, he voluntarily signed a contract and went to fight against his homeland, the Security Service of Ukraine reported.

After undergoing combat training and swearing allegiance to the Russian Federation, he went to serve on the Southern Front of Ukraine, where he was an unmanned aerial vehicle operator. As noted in the Prosecutor General's Office, he took part in battles, in particular in the territory of the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.

Realizing that it is dangerous at the front and they can kill, the man fled from the firing positions and tried to cross the EU border using a Ukrainian passport. In the European Union, he wanted to obtain the status of a Ukrainian refugee and "lie down. " Border guards detained him while trying to cross the border with the EU.

They discovered that he has a valid contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and also found out that he renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in writing in favor of a Russian passport. He also had a Russian passport, the flag of the Russian Federation, the chevrons of the Russian army and currency. Based on the available evidence, SBU investigators notified the detainee of suspicion under Part 2 of Art.

111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason committed under martial law). He is currently taken into custody. If he is found guilty, he faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property. We will remind, the former "regional", Odesa resident Ihor Markov stated on Russian television that Odesa "found itself under strict occupation" and a "concentration camp" was established there.