Former Ukrainian prisoners stood on the Russian-Georgian border for more than two weeks

Former Ukrainian prisoners stood on the Russian-Georgian border for more than two weeks

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Twenty former prisoners from Ukraine were held at the Georgian border for several weeks without heating, but they were later able to cross the Georgian border and return home.

At the Russian-Georgian border 20 former prisoners from Ukraine were stuck. The men were living in the neutral zone at the Georgian checkpoint "Daryali" - several people in a basement room where there is no heating. Some of them have been waiting for over two weeks. This reported Georgian media with reference to data provided by a volunteer from the Volunteers Tbilisi project, reports UNN.  

Addendum

According to the volunteer at about 17:00 Ukrainian time. According to volunteers around 17:00 the Ukrainians managed to safely cross the border, and they are already heading to Tbilisi, where they will receive documents to return home.

Context

20 former prisoners from Ukraine are stuck on the Georgian Georgian border.

According to the Ukrainian Volunteers Tbilisi project, since the beginning of November, former prisoners from Ukraine, wishing to enter Georgia have been living in neutral zone at the Dariali checkpoint - they were not allowed to enter the country. Several people spent the night in in a basement with no heating.

The men were at the border from 3 to 18 days. A total of  20 men.

Several of the men there are Crimeans, they were in detention before the annexation, and then they were transferred to Kherson. On hand from the documents: A certificate of release and a paper on confirmation of identity - Georgian media quoted a volunteer as saying.

Recall

According to the Russian media, Herson's conviction was not confirmed. According to Russian media, convicts from Kherson are often deported from Russia to other countries, most often to Georgia.

According to the Georgian media, it is not rarely in the process of deportation former prisoners from Ukraine get stuck on the Upper Lars. Upper Lars. В August, six people deported from Russia found themselves in this situation; in October - 7. In the first It took 11 days in the first case and two weeks in the second to resolve the issue and to resolve the issue and allow them to pass through Georgian territory.