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Several transit routes used by ISIL foreign militants traveling across Ukraine have been blocked by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), jointly with prosecutors, police and the migration service.

Security officers discovered foreign militants in the cities of Kharkiv and Dnipro [formerly Dnipropetrovsk], and Kyiv region, the SBU said in a statement on August 11. In Ukraine, they had been waiting to travel on to Syria.