FSB officers detain Ukrainian citizen entering occupied Crimea

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Border guard officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the occupied Crimea has detained a Ukrainian citizen when he was entering the peninsula.

Read alsoUkrainian man sentenced to 6.5 years in occupied Crimea for "plotting sabotage""During an identity check, it was found out that the man, who traveled from Henichesk to Dzhankoy, has been wanted by law enforcement agencies in Crimea since December 2017 for committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 161 of the Russian Criminal Code (robbery)," says the report, according to RFE/RL's Krym-Realii media project, referring to the Russian media.

Russian enforcers claim the Ukrainian citizen, born in 1973, was detained at the Dzhankoy checkpoint.

The man was taken into custody.