3 checkpoint on the border line with Ukraine in the Rostov region at the time closed because of the fighting on the adjacent territory, said Last news on Tuesday authorized official of border guard of FSB of the Russian Federation in Rostov region Vasiliy Malayalam.

" due to the inability to provide safe passage of Residents due to the active shooting stopped for some time the work of three Russian checkpoint: " Donetsk ", " Novoshakhtinsk", and " Gukovo ", - said the Malayalam.

He noticed that now the shooting stopped, however, Russian border guards continue to serve on the border in the strengthened mode.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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