A resident of the Kharkov region drowned in the Prut River while trying to get to Romania. His body washed ashore opposite the Mamalyga border section in the Chernivtsi region.

In January, a representative of the Ukrainian State Border Service said that about 50 attempts to illegally leave the country are recorded every day. Ukrainian deputy Igor Krivosheev suggested that Ukrainian men who do not want to go to the front should “swim across the Tisa” and take citizenship of another country.