Head of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service Viktor Nazarenko said that the authority is completing the creation of an intellectual guarding model for the state border with Russia in Kharkiv region. Works are underway in Sumy and Luhansk regions.
“Today we are finishing of all the planned measures in Kharkiv region. We have started works in Sumy and Luhansk regions,” he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
He recalled that in 2015 the government approved a relevant three-year plan for the development of the border facility.
“Since the middle of 2015 as of today we have dug over 273 km of anti-vehicle ditches, [created] 47 km of exclusion zones, 83 km of fence and 153 km of belt roads,” he said.
Nazarenko said that for this year the national budget envisages Hr 200 million for this program, or 17 percent of the target.
“Today we have received around Hr 30 million and use the funds for the project. In 2015, Hr 400 million was provided or 40 percentof the target. We link the slow implementation of the project with financing. However, [Ukraine] needs this project. We will implement it,” Nazarenko said.
He said there is no border trespassing at the sections where the project has already been implemented, which confirms its effectiveness.
