Ukraine-Russia borderMOSCOW, Apr 6 A five-meter wall needs to be built on the border between Ukraine and Russia , as well as the line of defense, said on Wednesday the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmitry Zhivitsky. there is no such wall, it is very difficult to predict anything,» Zhyvitsky said in an interview with LIGA.net.Ukrainian militants placed Grads on the territory of the temple near SumyAccording to him, this issue has been discussed since 2014, but nothing has been done in eight years. In his opinion, it would be nice to build «a good five-meter wall, both in height and in width,» and also need to build a line of defense. The head of the administration believes that these should be stationary fortifications, strongholds. According to Zhivitsky, the entire border line with Russia should be protected not only by a wall. «The military must be here all the time,» he added. Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who at that time held the post of prime minister of Ukraine, announced the start of the construction of a «real state border» with Russia in May 2015. The project was called «The Wall», and later, at the initiative of the prime minister himself, it was renamed the «European Wall». Despite the loud name, the fortification was a mesh fence, barbed wire and ditches. In the Rada, some deputies dubbed Yatsenyuk's «Wall» a «garden fence» and a «pit worth 4 billion hryvnias.» Subsequently, the budget was halved, and in 2016 the National Anti-Corruption Bureau opened a criminal case on the embezzlement of public funds allocated for the Wall. Then seven people were detained, including border guards and representatives of contractors. launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
