
Russia mines Ukrainian territory along the border of the Kherson region with occupied Crimea. According to LIGABBININFORF, this was stated by the Director of the Department of Information Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevgeny Dubinis, commenting on the order of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the arrangement of the Border between Russia and Ukraine in the north of Crimea.
"Both the instructions and the practical actions of the Russian side are nothing more than an attempt to engineering arrangement of the front edge of the stay of the Russian Federation in the occupied territory of the ARC," remark.
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, he added, regards this as another step towards consolidating the annexation of the peninsula and evidence of the gross violation of international law by Russia.
Derebyinis also noted that the laying on the border of two Ukrainian regions of anti -personnel and anti -tank mines violates the Convention on the ban on the use, accumulation of reserves, production and transfer of anti -personnel mines and their destruction.
These actions were also said by the representative of the Foreign Ministry, Russia is trying to hide from the international community.
On April 21, Medvedev gave the newly appointed head of the Russian Border Konstantin Busygin the order "immediately proceed to the arrangement of the state border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, taking into account the entry of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation." As the press secretary of Medvedeva Natalya Timakova said, in the near future Busygin should fly to the occupied peninsula.