Flow of refugees in the Mukachevo region increased 10 times

BMPU Media Monitoring:

The Border guards of Mukachevo Detachment have apprehended 655 irregular migrants during this year. This was reported by the head of the Mukachevo Border Detachment Sergey Melnyk at a joint press-conference of the directors of the Border Departmenta and Customs in the Transcarpathian region. According to his words, the flow of illegal migrants through the border of Ukraine has been increased in ten times. In the course of the previous year, in total 69 illegal migrants were detained by the border guards. At the same time, the head of Chop Border Detachment Ivan Chaplinskyui marked out, that the flow of migrants from territory of Ukraine to the EU does not constitute a particular risk for the neighboring countries.

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