Ukraine has closed 23 checkpoint at the border line with Russia: one international, four interstate and local 18. About this stated the press service of the state border service of Ukraine. Appropriate government order was issued on 18 February in order to " optimize the network of checkpoints and the necessary concentration of personnel and equipment on most major sections of the border with Russia ", said a state border service. Finally, today, on the borderline with Russia operates 39 posts: 3 in the Chernihiv region, 14 in Sumy, fifteen in Kharkiv, six in Lugansk and one in Kiev. Before the first day of the weekend in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that Russia is ready to bring the Residents of Ukraine in the frontier areas, where Kiev closes their checkpoints.
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