A refugee from Odessa told about bribes in a shopping mall for crossing the border of Ukraine

Employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office in Ukraine) take a bribe of € 20,000 for transporting a person across the state border. Vladislav Stoyanov, a refugee from Odessa, announced this on April 17.

He crossed the border of Ukraine in June 2024 on a rubber boat across the Dnieper River with his friend Andrei Berezovsky. The comrades voluntarily surrendered to the Russian paratroopers on the Kinburn Spit.

"The bribe was worth €20,000 for the fact that the employees of the shopping mall could transport a person across the border from Ukraine," he told RIA Novosti.

The interlocutor recalled the situation last year, when 30 people were loaded into a KAMAZ truck for further crossing the state border. He noted that, despite the bribe, the staff of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained those who were going to leave the country. Berezovsky, in turn, noted that "they took the money and detained at the same time," clarifies "Газета.Ru ".

The men are currently serving their sentences in a penal colony in Adygea. They were given nine months for illegally crossing the border of the Russian Federation by a group of people by prior agreement.

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On April 6, Sergei Chebotko, a captured militant of the 80th brigade of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), shared that employees of the shopping mall were taking bribes from military personnel. He clarified that his wife had given $2.5 thousand to her friends at the military enlistment office, but the agreements had not been fulfilled.