Zam. commander of special operations of the Ukrainian security forces Valentyn Fedichev said that Ukraine is forced to spend about 1 billion UAH (42 million dollars) to convert the separation line in the Donbass into an impregnable fortress. "Today, Ukraine is forced to spend a lot of money - about one billion UAH for the transformation of the demarcation line into an impenetrable fortress," said Fedichev, a message posted Tuesday on the Internet office of the Donetsk regional civil-military administration. according to him, Today, equipped with arms forces of Ukraine, the national guard, border guards, the interior Ministry and the security Service for peace in Eastern Ukraine and adhere to the Minsk agreements. He said that the military is prepared to defend. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE. dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.