Pavlo Shysholin: State Border Service keeps the situation with the state frontier under control
The State
Border Service of Ukraine controls the situation with the state border
completely. The First Deputy head of the State Border Service Pavlo Shysholin informed during a
briefing at the House of Government.
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According
to him, the state border is protected despite the military aggression. Throughout
the period of confrontations no subdivision of the State Border Service has
left the place of service. “We
fulfill the tasks at gun point and totally protect the frontier in this direction.
We are working in coordination with the Security Service and MIA
subdivisions,” he stressed. Thereby Pavlo Shysholin informed that the
Russian armed units had blocked 8 subdivisions of the State Border Service of
Ukraine, though their work never stops. “We were first to face the attack of the
aggressor. In the first days the borderguards had
to act in challenging combat circumstances. Nowadays 8 subdivisions of the State
Border Service are being blocked by the armed units of other country. But everyone
continues to perform the duties from other deployment spots, from other
reserve control points,” the first deputy head of the State Border Service
said. In particular, the two maritime security units – Sevastopol and Kerch – have been redeployed to Odessa and Berdyansk respectively and continue to protect the sea frontier of the country. “The
state border will be protected by the borderguards
of Ukraine, but not any other unidentified military formations. We will be
devoted to the oath and fulfill our duty in full,” Pavlo
Shysholin assured. Moreover,
he stressed the statements concerning supposedly mass entering by buses with
extremists were groundless and far from the truth. “Presently, the flow of
transport means and persons is controlled fully on the Ukrainian-Russian
state border. This flow has been cut by almost one-half. During recent
24-hours 26 thousand persons have been let through the whole section of
Ukrainian-Russian border,” Pavlo Shysholin announced. At this, he added that ensuring
safety of the citizens the frontiersmen were working on non-admittance of
provokers from Russia who incited the Ukrainian society in the eastern regions.
P. Shysholin emphasized certain cases of so-called marauding
were fixed and the borderguards were subjected to
fierce pressure as well. |