MOSCOW. Oct 12 (Interfax) - The two servicemen of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service detained on October 3 have been charged with illegally crossing the Russian border, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)'s press service said.
"The servicemen of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service, who were detained on October 3, 2017 for violating the border from Ukraine into the Russian Federation, have been charged in connection with a criminal case opened earlier based on Part 3 of Article 322 of the Russian Criminal Code [illegal crossing of the Russian state border]," the press service said in a statement obtained by Interfax on Thursday.
The FSB's Border Guard Directorate for the Bryansk region said on October 4 that two people crossing the border from the territory of Ukraine had been detained in the Bryansk region. The detainees said they were servicemen from the Sumy unit of the Eastern Regional Directorate of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service.
The Ukrainian State Border Guard Service then said that some of its servicemen were missing.
Two officers from the Znob-Novhorodske division of the Sumy unit were monitoring part of the border the day before. They stopped making contact around 8:00 p.m., the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service said.
Ukrainian State Border Guard Service Oleh Slobodian said on October 7 that Russian authorities had agreed to hold a border-representative meeting on the future of the detained Ukrainian border guards on October 9.
The names of the detainees have not been disclosed.