Border guard at the checkpoint. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 27.Russian border guards on the border with Ukraine are reinforced with reserves, armored vehicles and group weapons, said First Deputy Director — Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, General of the Army Vladimir Kulishov. «In order to prevent armed provocations and to ensure border security on the border with Ukraine, border guard units have been strengthened with reserves, additional temporary border posts have been deployed. Threatened areas are covered by enlarged border detachments in armored vehicles and with group weapons,» Kulishov said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. He noted that at the same time Ukrainian nationalists are carrying out «actions of intimidation» on the border with the Russian Federation. «The situation remains difficult at the present time, which is mainly associated with the shelling of Russian border guards, as well as the holding of «actions of intimidation» by Ukrainian nationalists by inflicting artillery strikes on the border infrastructure and populated areas nktam on Russian territory, as a result of which there are casualties and destruction,» Kulishov said. since 2014
