“On August 18, border guards detained a 34-year-old passenger at the checkpoint“ Novaya Guta ”while registering for the entry into our country of the bus“ Kiev-Minsk ”. During the passport control it turned out that the man was on the interstate wanted list in the CIS countries (the initiator was the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation), ”the Belarusian State Border Committee said.
The men found a revolver and a knife in their personal belongings.
“In accordance with the established procedure, he was handed over to the police officers,” the committee said.
On August 9, the State Border Committee of Belarus reported that 177 people, including 29 citizens of Ukraine, who arrived through the Minsk airport and could not explain why, were not allowed through the border of the republic per day for various reasons.