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| Ukrainian border guards caught men walking from Lugansk with fencing rapiers through minefields |
| 2021-05-11 |
| Direct Translation of the article [RUSVESNA] On the morning of Monday, May 10, near the Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint, border guards found two men who were trying to move more than two thousand foils for fencing from the territory of the LPR. This is reported by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. “Two 'swordsmen' who were trying to get to the contact line through minefields were discovered today at dawn by members of the Joint Forces. Thanks to the information received in advance from the border guards of the Luhansk detachment, the servicemen of the Sever OTG and the Ukrainian 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade on the outskirts of the village of Stanytsia Luhanska, 500 meters from the checkpoint, found two men who were handed over to the border guards of the Stanitsa Luhanska department,” says in the message. “As it turned out, citizens were heading to the contact line in order to pick up the goods and then move them to the village of Stanytsia Luhanska for a fee. 2200 foils for fencing in the agreed place were left for them by the inhabitants of Lugansk, ”the department noted. “It is worth noting that rapiers belong to the group of inventory items that are prohibited from moving across the contact line. This is the third time that law enforcement officers stopped trying to deliver such goods from the temporarily occupied territory, ”the border guards said. With regard to men, administrative protocols were drawn up under part 1 of article 204-3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for moving goods to or from the area of the anti-terrorist operation). The sanction of the article provides for the confiscation of the seized goods. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 actually, an epee might be a good tool for probing for mines...... don't do any fleches, though. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2021-05-11 07:39 |
| #5 ...An elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-11 06:07 |
| #4 2,000 foils Perhaps they overestimated the number of saberists and epeeists at the fencing tournament? |
| Posted by: Ebbavilet Ghibelline6490 2021-05-11 02:29 |
| #3 Incidentally, a fencing foil weights (approx) a pound. So 2200 fencing foils are (a bit) more than two men can carry. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 02:20 |
| #2 The arme blanche retains its popularity in warfare. |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-05-11 01:36 |
| #1 The Noble Art is alive in Ukraine? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 01:12 |