Chop Border Detachment
The Chop Border Detachment (1493) is a brigade level detachment of the Central Department of the State Border Service of Ukraine. The detachment guards the Poland-Ukraine border, Hungary-Ukraine border and the Ukraine-Romania border in Uzhhorod Raion of Zakarpattia Oblast as well as the Uzhhorod International Airport. The detachment guards border length 149.4 km, 83 km mountainous, 19.6 km riverine and 46.8 km in plains. History On 1 March 1993, it was established as a separate checkpoint. On 1 August 2003, it became part of the Western Regional Administration State Border Service of Ukraine as the Chop Detachment established by the union the Zakarpattia checkpoint and 12 border outposts of the Mukachevo border detachment. It was reformed and organized in 2008. It saw combat during the War in Donbass. On 10 October 2014, near Novotroitskyi, a convoy of the border guards was attacked with small arms resulting in the death of two guardsmen of the detachment (Kis ...
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