AFU servicemen. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 27.Ukraine has been deploying military formations in the areas bordering Russia since 2014, General of the Army Vladimir Kulishov, First Deputy Director and Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. With the support of Western partners, the Ukrainian side conducted intensive military preparations, accompanied by the deployment of military formations in the border areas with the Russian Federation,» Kulishov said. At the same time, the head of the Border Service noted, these events were carried out against the backdrop of active anti-Russian propaganda. «From 2014 to February of this year over 40 anti-Russian actions on the state border were undertaken by the Ukrainian side.During this period, Russian border guards, in cooperation with territorial security agencies, units of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, stopped more than 120 provocations against citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as courts and other Russian economic entities. omic activity in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas,» Kulishov said.
