The Armed Forces of Ukraine detained the fighter of the Luhansk People’s Republic on March 9, the detainee expressed willingness to fight for the Ukrainian army. The Joint Forces Operation (JFO) HQ reports this.

“On March 9, the soldiers of one of the units of the brigade of the Joint Forces operation, which carries combat missions in the direction of Severodonetsk, noticed a man heading along the forest line towards our position. When the four soldiers went closer to him and let him go down the trench, then our defenders detained the unknown man,” the report said.

The detainee had a Kalashnikov AK-74 automatic machine, a military ticket of the Luhansk People's Republic, issued Alchevsk, as well as banknotes of the Russian bank, a vacation ticket, a certificate of medical treatment of the military unit L 74347 and other similar documents.

“The detained man appeared to be a citizen of Ukraine, Y. was born in Mykolayiv in 1976, and his passport was issued in Stakhanov city in 1992. The registration of traitor’s passport is also Stakhanov city of Luhansk region," the report said.

Currently, the officers investigate the case in order to determine his involvement in war crimes by armed groups of the Russian Federation and the details of participating in hostilities against the Ukrainian people.