“The Consulate General has contacted the US Customs and Border Service. We were informed that last night a Russian citizen, Glushchenko, Yevgeny Pavlovich, was born in 1982 and was wounded in Arizona while trying to cross the border between the USA and Mexico, ”RIA Novosti quotes the representative of the Consulate General.
Earlier it became known that the US border guard on November 14 wounded a Russian from a firearm while allegedly trying to cross the border with Mexico.
Robert Daniels, a spokesman for the Border and Customs Control Service at the US Department of Homeland Security in Arizona, said that the condition of a Russian citizen is rated as satisfactory and not deteriorating.
The Russian Consulate General in Houston said they would seek access to a wounded Russian.