Seventeen Indians have been detained on Russia's border while attempting to illegally cross into neighbouring Ukraine, border officials said on Monday.
On a tip-off, Russian and Ukrainian border guards in a joint operation detained the immigrants in the Bryansk sector of the common border on Sunday, ITAR-TASS quoted the officials as saying.
In all 530 illegal Asian immigrants heading for Western Europe were detained last year on Russia's border with Ukraine.
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