Ukraine security service kidnaps two Russian nationals: Moscow
Ukraine’s security service has abducted a Russian soldier and his brother in Russia’s southwest and taken them to the Ukrainian territory, the Russian Defense Ministry says.
"On September 12, at about 6 a.m. [0400 GMT] employees of the Ukrainian security service kidnapped Russian contract serviceman Viktor Barsukov from the village of Chertkovo in the Rostov region, and took him to the territory of Ukraine," the ministry said in a Saturday statement.
Barsukov’s brother, Nikolay, was also kidnapped from the Russian village, located near the border with Ukraine, according to the statement, which called for the immediate release of the captives and an end to such provocations.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reportedly received the information from the brothers’ relatives.
The area in which the kidnapping took place is across the border from Ukraine’s eastern regions, which have been the scene of deadly clashes between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations to silence protests there in mid-April 2014.
Some 8,000 people have been killed in east Ukraine since the armed militancy began there.
Kiev and its Western allies accuse Moscow of supporting the pro-Russia forces in Ukraine’s east. Russia categorically denies the allegation.
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