This was stated by the Federal Security Service of Russia.

According to the intelligence service, at 11:15 a.m., 26 servicemen of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine arrived at the Troebortnoye checkpoint in the Bryansk region.

At 12:10 another 16 Ukrainian border guards arrived at the Crimean checkpoint Dzhankoy.

Earlier, the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic stated that the Ukrainian servicemen of the 57th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily defected to the side of the LPR.