Poroshenko tells Border Service to agree joint patrols with Russia
KYIV. Aug 28 (Interfax) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has set the task of restoring Ukrainian border controls in the east of the country and organizing joint patrolling with Russian border guards.
"Consultations between our senior border officials begin this Saturday," the president told the National Security and Defense Council (SNBO) on Thursday.
The border guard service has been instructed "to restore Ukrainian border guard activities at checkpoints and to agree joint patrolling (of the border) so as to stop (military) hardware from infiltrating our territory," the president said.
This should be the subject of the August 30 consultations between the Russian and Ukrainian border authorities, he said.
Poroshenko also said that the SNBO meeting will consider the plan for further operations in eastern Ukraine, devised by the army General Staff. "The chief of General Staff reported to me the idea for our subsequent actions. And I have approved it. We will discuss a clear and coherent plan of action for the near term at the closing stage of the SNBO meeting," Poroshenko said.