Border separating Crimea from Ukraine to be equipped within six weeks at most

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Border separating Crimea from Ukraine to be equipped within six weeks at most - Aksyonov

SIMFEROPOL. April 18 (Interfax) - The border at straits separating Crimea from Ukraine will be equipped not later than in six weeks and prior to this Crimea's self-defense forces will guard the border with Ukraine, acting Crimean head Sergei Aksyonov said.

"They will leave only when the state Russian border is completely built. Work is underway in this regard, the border is being equipped and I think this will be completed within a month, six weeks at most," Aksyonov said at a news conference in Simferopol on Friday.