The Parliament of Ukraine adopted the presidential law, which proposes to increase the total strength of the State border service of Ukraine on 3 thousand to 53 thousand people. Such a decision at the meeting on Thursday was supported by 253 parliamentarians with the necessary minimum of 226 votes.

"In order to successfully accomplish the State border service of Ukraine of tasks in threatening directions one must make a fresh military authorities (ous - ed) the State border protection, and For this purpose it is necessary to increase the existing limit on the number of the State border service of 3 thousand people ", - is written in the explanatory paper for the law.

currently the number of border service approved at the level of 50 thousand people, and among them 42 thousand soldiers.

in the explanatory note Also says that the adoption of the law is necessary in connection with the situation in the East and the separation of Crimea from Ukraine, what we must take steps To resume monitoring at the border." One of the steps is the development of the legal basis For the density increase in the protection of the State border on threatening his directions, " according to the document.

similarly, in the explanatory note it is reported that in 2014 Ukrainian border guards have increased the number of its soldiers on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border, at the border line with the Crimea and the dividing line in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. It was through the creation of a temporary military branches and the movement of border guards from other regions of Ukraine.

This, for its part, has reduced their numbers in other areas of the State border (in the North and West of the state). It is noted that the execution of the tasks requires a rotation of this staff, which is more than half a year acting in the area of conducting special operations.

"This will give the opportunity not only to solve the existing problems mentioned above, and Also to increase the reliability of protection of the boundary line with the subsequent release and deployment of new organs of the State border service at the time of the uncontrolled state border of Ukraine ", - explained in the document.

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