A crew from Sweden's public television broadcaster SVT visited Romania's northern border to produce a documentary on surveillance and control activities along the Romanian-Ukrainian state border, Spokesperson for the Territorial Border Police Inspectorate (ITPF) Sighetu Marmatiei Iulia Stan said on Wednesday evening.

'The journalists accompanied operational teams on monitoring missions along the River Tisa (a cross-border river, editor's note), joined patrols in the field using vehicles equipped with thermal imaging systems and visited the Historic Wooden Bridge at the Sighetu Marmatiei Border Crossing Point. One of the topics of interest for the international media is the way situations involving Ukrainian citizens who cross illegally into Romania are managed, especially in the mountainous area and along the River Tisa sector,' said Iulia Stan.


According to the quoted source, the Swedish television crew was interested in the cases encountered in the field by Romanian border police officers.

'The filming team documented both the operational side of field missions and the specific nature of interventions carried out in such cases. The documentation offered a direct picture of the activities conducted daily at the northern border, in an area where border surveillance means a permanent presence in the field, coordination and constant adaptation to the specific features of the border region,' Iulia Stan added.

At the same time, the head of the Maramures County Mountain Rescue Public Service (SPJ Salvamont Maramures), Dan Benga, mentioned the Swedish television crew's interest in the involvement of mountain rescuers in recovering Ukrainian fugitives.

'To save lives in extreme areas, often in dreadful weather conditions and on ridges unfamiliar to those fleeing the war, is a form of discreet yet vital heroism. The fact that Sweden's national television broadcaster (SVT) came all the way here to Maramures shows that our story has a strong European resonance. Beyond promoting the area's tourism potential - which we all know includes breathtaking landscapes - our work in recent years in the Maramures Mountains has been a genuine lesson in humanity, courage and professionalism taken to the extreme,' Dan Benga said.

Salvamont Maramures and Border Police crews have recently been the subject of TV reports on news channels, articles in the European press and coverage in the Romanian media as well. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Leontin Cupar; EN - writing by: Adina Panaitescu)

Photo source: Poliţia de Frontieră, Sighetu Marmației/facebook