18-02-2015

Almost every day border guards of separate check point “Kyiv” in the airport Boryspil detect the violators intending to cross Ukrainian border using forged or someone’s documents. Thus, border guards disclosed violators trying to cross the state border in illegal way in the course of the border control of the transit passengers arriving by the flight “Istanbul-Kyiv”. However, the officers of State Border Guards Service prevented the Syrian woman to use someone’s passport of the citizen of Great Britain. The violator will be sent by a return fly.

Source:  http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_6104.htm

16-02- 2015

Border guards of separate security check point “Boryspil” detained a group of persons intending to get to Ukraine with forged documents. The violators were detected among the passengers arrived from the United Arab Emirates. One of the passengers arrived together with her 5 children and submitted the passports of the citizens of Denmark and Bulgaria for the passport control. However, the border guards discovered the false documents at once. 43-year-old mother explained that her husband provided them with these passports and she planned to settle in Ukraine soon. They will be returned by the fly back to the country of departure.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_6075.htm

11-02-2015

In the year 2014, in total there were 1156 applications submitted by the migrants with request to provide them with international protection and grant them refugee status. In majority cases these were the citizens of Ukraine (515), Syria (108) and Vietnam (64).

Also it was reported that resettlement to the ancestral territory of Volyn Czechs had already been decided. The first of them could move already in the first part of March. It was informed in the frames of the meeting with the deputies of Czech Migration Policy by the Minister of Interior of Czech Republic Milan Khovanets.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/164619

11-02-2015

Border guards of separate check point “Kyiv” detected a group of the citizens of Vietnam intending to get to Ukraine in illegal way. The border guards’ attention was paid by a group of passengers arrived from Moscow. Disregarding of frost, 7 men and 3 women were dressed in light clothes and shoes. During the interview with the travelers it was learned that they had arrived to Ukraine with tourist aim. However, they were unable to name neither the town they were travelling to nor the hotel, where they planned to stop. The travelers informed that as if they were already expected in Ukraine, thus, no answers on this point were given.

Because of inability to confirm the goal of the planned stay in Ukraine and absence of the return tickets, the Vietnam citizens were rejected in crossing the state border of Ukraine. So far, they were sent by a fly back.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_5996.htm

04-02-2015

As part of measures taken on counteraction to illegal migration, border guards of Chop Detachment received information about a big group of unknown persons arrived to the border area.

In the course of joint information processing, the staff of State Border Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Interior in Transcarpathian region detected 8 citizens of Afghanistan – five men, two women and a child – in the house of one of the border villages.

None of them had any documents and their appearance in the border area was explained as a wish to get to Europe.

When illegal migrants were detained in the house, law enforcement officers found one more citizen of Ukraine, a resident of the town of Uzhgorod, who rented this premise.

Most likely he will have to stand trial as to Article 332 of the Criminal Code (illegal transportation of persons through the state border of Ukraine).

Detained migrants were taken to the subdivision, and their further destiny will be defined by the court.

In total for the current year, the border guards of Chop Detachment apprehended 175 migrants from Afghanistan.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/164056

02-02-2015

Border guards of State Border Guard Service detected three violators intending to cross the state border by forged documents. Border guards of Kharkiv Detachment in the check point “Kharkiv-air” detained the citizen of Azerbaijan. It was established that he presented someone’s passport of the citizen of Uzbekistan for passport control also containing the false signs of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

Two citizens of Moldova planned to cross the border with forged signs in the check point “Platonove” and “Mayaky”. The violators were stopped by the border guards of Kotovskyi and Belgorod-Dniprovskyi Detachments. The officers of MOI were informed on this point.

In total, in the course of the year 2014, more than 1100 persons were detected with false SBGS signs.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_5896.htm

02-02-2015

Lately, border guards of Chop Detachment apprehended the next “happiness seeker” for the attempt to cross the border illegally. When the alarm system went off some meters before Ukrainian-Slovakian border, border guards of BS “Velykyi Bereznyi” detained a man without any documents. “Tourist” stated that he was Syrian. According to words of the detainee it was established that he had lived and worked for some years in Luhansk region, then he decided to leave Ukraine and used the service Google maps to get to Norway.

Afterwards, the border guards managed to find out that this citizen was already detained in 2014 by the staff of Chop Detachment within Uzhgorod district for the same violation.

Aiming at clearing the circumstances of the violation and preparing administrative and procedural documents, the violator was delivered to Border Subdivision.

Detainee’s further destiny will be defined by the court.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/163903

26-01-2015

The citizens of Ukraine transporting a big group of the citizens of Syria were apprehended in Transcarapathia by the border guards of BS “Kosyno” of Mukachevo Detachment together with the SSU officers.

Two minivans and a car were stopped for the check on the highway “Velyka Bigan – Kosyne” in the frames of the program on detection and counteraction to illegal migrants’ movement with application of preliminary operative information. There were 7 citizens of Syria inside the vehicles driven by Ukrainian citizens.

Later on, the staff of State Border Guard Service and Security Service of Ukraine in the town of Berehovo detained one more citizen of Ukraine probably concerned in this violation.

For establishing the situation all citizens of Ukraine were handed to SSU, the citizens of Syria were delivered to Detention Centre after preparing administrative protocols until the court decision.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_5823.htm

22-01-2015

According to data of UNHCR as of January 16, 2015, the number of internally displaced persons from Donbass and Crimea comprised 853 301 person. Of them about 3 thousand persons settled in Transcarapathia.

Traditionally, the most outflow of population is observed on the territory of Donetsk region, from where 303 172 persons left the occupied territory and Luhansk region, from where 90 000 persons departed from the area under control of Ukrainian militaries.

Temporary shelter in Kharkiv was found by about 107 350 displaced persons, in Kyiv and capital region – by almost 96 000 persons, 62 787 and 58 795 persons – in Zaporizhya and Dnepropetrovsk correspondingly.

UNO deputy of General Secretary Jeffry Feltman reports that due to data received from Ukrainian authorities, the quantity of internally displaced persons has increased up to 850 thousand persons, yet more than 600 thousand moved to the neighboring countries.

He made this statement on January 21, during the meeting of Security Council of UNO in New York.

«Situation goes on worsening in a result of conflict escalation. The country having no any IDPs a year ago now counts 850 thousand within the country, more than 600 thousand in the neighboring countries », – Feltman marked.

It will be recalled that according to the operative information as of January 12, 633 836 are resettled from the Crimea and areas of anti-terroristic operation to other regions of Ukraine.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/163158

20-01-2015

The man without documents intending to get to Slovakia in illegal way was apprehended by the border guards of BS “Velykyi Bereznyi”. He left a kilometer and a half to reach the border. The ‘tourist” did not have any documents. He was Georgian by nationality. The migrant arrived to Ukraine legally.

For some time he lived and worked in Donetsk, and because of the complicated situation there he was forced to leave the region. Having no any opportunity to get the job in the capital, he decided to get to Austria through Transcarpathia.

The border guards took the violator to the border subdivision in order to clarify the circumstances of the infringement and prepare administrative and procedural documents.

His further destiny will be defined by the court.

Source:  http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/162990