"Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine blocked the mechanism of illegal passenger traffic to the temporarily occupied areas of the Luhansk region and in the opposite direction," the report said.

The ministry said that “as part of the initiated criminal proceedings, the intelligence officers of the special services established that residents from the temporarily occupied districts of the Luhansk region had organized illegal bus trips from Odessa.”

As reported in the Security Service of Ukraine "the transport route ran through the territory of Russia to the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region."

Earlier, the head of the press service of the People’s Militia of the LPR, Yakov Osadchiy, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces stationed three mortar calculations near the village of Luganskaya.