Ukraine has dug more than 100 km of anti-tank ditches on the border line with Russia

In the framework of the project "European Val" Ukraine has equipped more than 100 km of anti-tank ditches on the border line with Russia, said on the first day of the week, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
"for These few months are more than hundreds of kilometers of anti-tank ditches, 50 towers, about 400 km of the buffer strips. Ukraine has been building quality border ", - quotes Yatsenyuk news Agency.
He said that in Accordance with the Minsk agreements must be renewed " full oversight of the Ukrainian-Russian border "." For the Ukrainian border service was in truth a European and fulfill their mission of preventing illegal crossing of state border and monitor our European partners have identified a large amount of financial resources used for the acquisition of new equipment, machinery, new systems of management ", - said Yatsenyuk." European Val "- a unilateral initiative of the Ukrainian leadership on the equipment of the border with Russia (originally the Project was called "the Wall" ). In November of last year the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the decision of the President of Petro Poroshenko about the sole designation of the line of the Ukrainian-Russian border. The project involves the construction of trenches, ditches, and special objects. Not so long ago the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised to finish the Project "the Wall" by the end of 2018. According to his statement, the total Cost of the project is 4 billion hryvnia (194 million dollars), of which 2, 5 billion (U.S. $ 121 million) will focus on the establishment of electronic means of tracking, 1, 5 billion (72 million dollars) will be spent on construction work. For the construction of borders in 2014-2015 is already spent 160 million hryvnia (7, 7 million). This money, as explained by Yatsenyuk, were provided to Ukraine in the framework of international financial assistance. Remember, at the end of may, Russian border guards said that the Russian side has been working in the overlap of the boundary line. In the Rostov region along the Russian-Ukrainian border already built more than 40 km of fences and dug out about 100 km of ditches." Engineering strengthening of the state border is carried out To ensure stability of the don region as well as prevention of illegal trafficking of weapons, " he told the guards. The length of the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Rostov region is about 660 km, of which more than 400 km is land area.


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