Another fugitive almost drowned in the Tisza: a border guard cadet rescued the man

Recently, a 20-year-old Transcarpathian man who wanted to illegally get to Romania was pulled out of the Tisa River by a cadet of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The State Border Guard Service reported about another case of catching "evaders" , UNN reports.

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While patrolling the Ukrainian-Romanian border, border guards noticed an unknown man. The young man did not respond to the border guards' demands, instead jumping into the river and calling for help a few minutes later.

The fast current carried him away from the shore, but fortunately, a border guard cadet who was doing his internship in Zakarpattia managed to save the life of the "swimmer". Later, the rescued man admitted that he had paid $2500 for the illegal border crossing.

The illegal swimmer was pulled out of the river by a border guard university cadet who is currently undergoing an internship at the "Dilove" department of the Mukachevo detachment.

In the course of further monitoring of the river from the air, within a few minutes, the UAV operator spotted another man in the water. A response team was immediately dispatched to search for and rescue him. When the border guards arrived at the scene, the man was holding on to the roots of a tree with his last strength and calling for help. However, they did not have time to pull him out.  The man was unable to resist the strong current and, having unclenched his hands, disappeared under the water. The search for him is still ongoing.