More than a year ago, Ukraine has announced an ambitious project for the construction of the project "the Wall" on the borderline with Russia, but At the moment time strengthening appeared only on a small area of border passes.
currently at the checkpoint "sen'kivka" in the Chernihiv region there are only a few hundred meters of fences from metal mesh, emphasizes the Agency. The length of the Russian-Ukrainian border is almost 2 thousand kilometers.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk tried to convince to continue work on the project, then known as the " European wall ", however, he drew attention to the need to create "high-tech" of the border. However, analysts doubt that Ukraine will be able to bring the construction to completion.
"in the short term, this project will not be easy to implement, the most important thing for economic reasons," said political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Center for applied political studies " Penta "." In need of huge funds which Ukraine is currently not " - he added.
According to the project " European Val ", By 2018, on the border Between Russia and Ukraine are obliged to appear sophisticated defenses with the use of electronic surveillance systems.
The works were started in September 2014, but due to the exorbitant cost of the project, the construction was postponed. From the outset, Kiev was determined spending on strengthening the borders of $1 billion Then the budget had to be reduced four times, but financing the result is not received on time. To delays in construction led and bureaucratic discussions about what the Ministry has to monitor the progress of the work.
sections: Politics |