Almost 13,000 men were detained in Ukraine for trying to illegally cross the border.

Last year, almost 13,000 men were detained in Ukraine for trying to illegally cross the border. This was reported on January 2 by the Ukrainian newspaper Strana.ua" with reference to the speaker of the State Border Service of the country Andrey Demchenko.

"More than 13,000 men were detained in 2025 while trying to illegally cross the border," the publication's Telegram channel says.

It is clarified that men are most often detained when trying to enter the European Union (EU) countries, while 1,400 people were detained while trying to enter the territory of Belarus.

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