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The Ukrainian Security Service reports that one of the two Russian citizens captured near the town of Schastia in Luhansk region on May 16, identified as active servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), will be put into a pretrial detention facility on June 3.

“One of them will be transferred to a pretrial detention facility today,” Vasyl Vovk, the chief of the Ukrainian Security Service’s main investigations directorate, said at a news briefing in Kyiv on June 3.

According to Vovk, the second Russian serviceman will be transferred to the detention facility next week.

Both will be transferred by police van, he added.