The man who led to the detention of the border guards has requested asylum in Moldova

Moldova sent a note of protest to Ukraine after two Ukrainian border guards illegally crossed the state border while pursuing a man who was swimming across the Dniester River. The man requested asylum in Moldova and will most likely be granted it.

This was stated by Lilian Karp, chair of the parliamentary committee on national security, defense, and public order, during an interview on Radio Moldova.

According to Karp, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there have been repeated instances of Ukrainian citizens illegally crossing the Moldovan border. However, he emphasized that this does not justify the border guards’ actions.

The incident occurred on October 15 near the village of Goloshnytsia in the Soroca district. Two Ukrainian border guards in a motorboat entered Moldovan territory while attempting to detain a Ukrainian citizen who was swimming across the Dniester River.

For his part, a spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine stated that the Ukrainian border patrol, along with their boat, was carried by the current to the Moldovan shore while attempting to detain the man who was crossing the Dniester River.

A Moldovan border patrol picked up the Ukrainian servicemen and transported them to the Cosăuți border police sector. The prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal investigation into the illegal crossing of the state border.

The 49-year-old man, a native of Kyiv, was hospitalized in the trauma unit of the Soroc District Hospital. He was diagnosed with a concussion.

At 9:55 p.m., as reported by TVR Moldova, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it had not sent a note of protest to the authorities in Kyiv regarding the incident on the Dniester, in which two Ukrainian border guards pursued and attacked a man who was attempting to swim across the river in order to escape to his family of refugees in Bulgaria.

Андрій Колісніченко