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2,200 Ukrainian men detained trying to leave

Published:Sunday | April 10, 2022 | 12:20 PM
A Ukrainian volunteer Oleksandr Osetynskyi, 44, holds a country's flag and directs hundreds of refugees after fleeing from Ukraine and arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File)

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's border guard agency says that about 2,200 Ukrainian men of fighting age have been detained so far while trying to leave the country in violation of martial law.

The agency said Sunday that some of them have used forged documents and others tried to bribe border guards to get out of the country.

It said some have been found dead while trying to cross the Carpathian mountains in adverse weather, without specifying the number.

Under martial law, Ukrainian men between 18 and 60 are barred from leaving the country so that they can be called up to fight.

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