17 Pakistani immigrants among 26 detained in Ukraine

Ukrainian border guards on Friday said they had detained 26 clandestine migrants from Vietnam, Pakistan and China in the Transcarpathia region in the west of the country. The group was made up of 17 Pakistani nationals, seven Vietnamese and two Chinese who were seeking to cross the border into Slovakia, the local border guards service said in a statement. Ukraine shares borders with Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, all of which became members of the European Union in May last year, and as a result has become a major transit point for illegal immigrants seeking to get into western Europe.