The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation tried to persuade Kiev to refrain from unilateral border demarcation
Russia hopes that Ukraine will refrain from carrying out the demarcation of the border unilaterally, said on Thursday the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich.
" Still, we expect that the Ukrainian authorities will refuse from taking practical steps unilateral demarcation of the border in violation of existing international commitments, " he said at a press conference in the Russian capital.
" According to established international practice, the demarcation of the state border is a collaborative process between neighbouring States, and for this reason unilateral demarcation not be able to be legally binding on the other party and, therefore, does not achieve its main goals, " he added.
The Council of national security and defence of Ukraine of June 16, decided unilaterally to carry out the demarcation of the entire border with Russia. As the NSDC Secretary said Andrei Parubiy, the story is about the construction of the necessary facilities and unilateral demarcation not only in areas where fighting is going on, and the whole length of the border. in addition, the State border service of Ukraine creates in his own part of the sniper unit in the protection of state borders, said Parubiy. on June 13, the Ukrainian media said that the billionaire, the head of Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration Ihor Kolomoisky has made the initiative to the President of Ukraine to build a protective fence on the border of Ukraine and Russia. The project fastening boom involves the installation of a solid metal fence made of high-strength steel with barbed wire. Approaches to the fence must programatica trenches and barbed wire with Both Russian and Ukrainian side to exclude the access of the civilian population. Learn more in