Militiamen accuse Ukrainian border guards of humiliating treatment at Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint
LUHANSK. Dec 29 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian military tightened pass control at the checkpoint located in Stanytsia Luhanska ahead of New Year holidays: only 15 people per hour can proceed through, Ihor Yashchenko, chief of staff of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) militsiya corps said.
"Queues of 500-700 people emerge at the checkpoint. The Ukrainian border guards allow no more than 15 people per hour to pass through, subjecting them to a thorough security checking out in the freezing cold, as well as to some openly humiliating treatment," Yashchenko told a briefing conference on Tuesday.
All the territory adjoining the checkpoint "is surrounded with barbed wire, with some special shields set up, which causes big delays," he said.
"These facts were repeatedly recorded by OSCE monitors in the course of their controlling the work of the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint, as well as during the polls conducted among local residents," he added.
Yashchenko claims that the Ukrainian forces continue to bring in heavy weapons and personnel closer to the line of contact in Donbas.
"According to our intelligence near the urban settlement of Myronovsky, 8 km away from the contact line and in the town of Svitlodarsk, there is a concentration of military equipment there of up to 30 items in total, including five T-64 tanks, and of military personnel that is conducting personal check of the civilians crossing these populate areas," he revealed.
