Ukrainian deputy tries to swim to Romania

A Ukrainian deputy was detained by frontier guards while trying to swim across the Danube to Romania. The woman is a deputy of Izmail city council and it was the third time she had tried to cross the state border. She managed to swim 50 metres from the bank that time. The deputy was detained for the same infringement on June 6 and 9. She was fined for the second attempt to swim across the border. Now the woman will have to sped 15 days behind bars.

According to UNIAN, she claimed that she would continue trying to get to Romania that way after every detention. Nothing is reported about the motives of such actions.