Checkpoints put at all entrances to Sevastopol
SEVASTOPOL. Feb 26 (Interfax) - Checkpoints were put up at all entrances to Sevastopol last night and the borders to the city are guarded by groups of people, police units, and traffic police.
All suspicious cars and buses will be checked.
"We are now talking about the protection of the people of Sevastopol," a person involved in the organization of the checkpoints told reporters.
According to the Sevastopol news portal ForPost, the construction of the checkpoints is being coordinated by Alexei Chaly, chairman of the coordination council of the Sevastopol city directorate, and any conflicts will be resolved in coordination with the Sevastopol anti-terrorist center, which was created on Tuesday.
It was reported earlier that the participants of an extraordinary session of the Sevastopol City Council on February 24 decided to set up the council's executive body called the Sevastopol municipal directorate in order to keep the city functioning, and Chaly became its chairman.
Sevastopol currently has a city council and a city state administration, but does not have an executive committee of the city council. A law on the hero city Sevastopol has not been adopted. A draft version of the law is currently in the parliament.
