The detainee acknowledged being on active military service in Russia during questioning.
Another man, detained along with the Russian officers identified himself as a pro-Russian militant fighter, according to Ukraine Today.
The truck was supposedly moving from another separatist-controlled town of Olenivka as it was stopped following warning shots from Ukrainian border guards.
Russian military officials did not comment immediately, while the self-styled “ministry of defense” of the Russian proxies in Donetsk rejected Ukraine's claim, saying it "provokes irony".
Detention of a Russian officer will add up to Ukraine's charges that Russia is directly involved in military conflict in Ukrainian Donbas, failing to fulfill the truce signed in Minsk this February.
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