STOCKHOLM, December 11. /TASS/. The Finnish Border Guard Service has sent a petition to court for extending the detention of Russian citizen Vojislav Torden, who was previously detained at the request of Ukraine, the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports.

According to the daily, if the detention lasts more than a few days, the border guard service must submit a request for extending it to the district court. The hearing is due on Monday.

The newspaper also writes that the Finnish residence permit, which was previously issued to Torden because his wife studies in the country, has been cancelled. The Russian will be deported and banned from re-entering Finland.

On December 8, the Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of 36-year-old Torden, refusing to extradite him to Ukraine. Immediately after his release, Torden was detained by Finnish border guards, Helsingin Sanomat said.

Torden, who previously bore the name Yan Petrovsky, is a citizen of Russia. He was included in the sanction lists of the European Union and the US Department of the Treasury. Ukraine demands his extradition on charges of crimes allegedly committed in Donbass in 2014 and 2015.

Torden was detained at Helsinki airport on July 20. The next day the court decided to take him into custody for violating immigration laws. On August 28, Torden was visited by officials from the consular department of the Russian embassy in Helsinki.