ROSTOV-ON-DON, July 16. /ITAR-TASS/. Fifteen Ukrainian border guards have been taken to hospitals of the Russian city of Gukovo in the southern Rostov region, the spokesman of the regional branch of the Russian Border Guard Service told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

“Today, on July 16, at 16:00 Moscow time (12:00 UTC), servicemen of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service came from Ukraine’s Krasny Partizan border checkpoint waving a white flag and asking to render medical assistance to them,” Vasily Malayev said. “They all were taken to Gukovo’s medical institutions and were provided with medical help.”

Malayev said that, proceeding from the principles of humanism, Russia agreed to host the wounded and did everything possible to render urgent medical aid to them without delay.