Border guards shoot dead a man in Odesa region

Border guards shot and killed a man who was trying to illegally cross the border of Ukraine in Odesa region.

This was reported by the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

According to the SBGS, the soldiers noticed two men and began to pursue them. The men did not stop, so the border guards began to shoot. The SBGS claimed that they only made warning shots. After that, one of the offenders was detained, and the other was found without signs of life. The man had a bullet wound.

"Law enforcement agencies, in particular the National Police and the State Bureau of Investigation, were immediately notified of this situation, and their officers arrived at the scene to clarify the circumstances," the SBGS reported.

Urgent investigative actions are currently underway. In particular, law enforcement officers are examining the actions of the border patrol. The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, in turn, has ordered an internal investigation into the incident.

This is not the first time that border guards have had to shoot to stop violators: in February, two Ukrainian citizens were detained by border guards of the Podilsky detachment near the village of Pavlivka, Rozdilnyansky district, Odesa region, while trying to illegally cross the Transnistrian segment of the Ukrainian-Moldovan border. During the detention, the offenders, having heard the border guards' voice calls to stop, ran away. However, warning shots and the use of a sniffer dog, Dick, stopped them.

Also in January, in Odesa region, border guards detained three men from Kyiv wearing camouflage uniforms who were trying to illegally cross the border. Despite numerous requests from border guards to stop, the men tried to escape. They were detained only after warning shots were fired in the air.

Кирило Бойко