Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration deputy head Hennadiy Korban has presented to the Ukrainian presidential administration an engineering project and a feasibility study of a 1,920-kilometers-long wall along the Russian border with an approximate value of euro 100 million.
“This project is proposed by Dnipropetrovsk regional state
administration head Ihor Kolomoisky. (…) It can be fulfilled within six
months,” Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration deputy head
Sviatoslav Oliynyk told Interfax.
The project stipulates the construction of a 1,920-kilometers-long
blind metal fence along the Russian border; the electric fence will be
made of high strength steel and have a barbed wire on top. It is
proposed to build the fence in the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions.
The project says the approaches to the wall will be blocked by deep
and wide ditches and barbed wire, which will keep off civilians,
animals, cars and armored vehicles. The space between ditches and the
fence will be protected with signal and antipersonnel mines.
The Ukrainian army, border guards and National Guard will be deployed along the wall.
“Charities will finance this project. Everything the project needs is
made in Ukraine; from this point of view, this is a good
infrastructural project based on Ukrainian industries,” Oliynyk said.
In his opinion, a number of enterprises of the Dnipropetrovsk region can contribute to the project.
It will cost about euro 50 million to install a metal fence along
1,920 kilometers of the state border. The overall value of engineering
works will not exceed euro 100 million, Oliynyk said. He did not rule out
financial contributions of the government either.
