An Australian citizen has been detained at the Heorhiyivka checkpoint in Donetsk region while crossing from the territory controlled by the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service said on Jan. 7.
“Information concerning this citizen came from the police. An inspection of his personal belongings yielded ten 7.62 shells, a flak jacket, two knives, a pass and an identification document of a journalist accredited in the DPR,” it said.
Procedural documents were drawn up and the citizen was transferred to the Ukrainian Security Service.
