Contents tagged with wall

  • Completion of wall on Russian-Ukrainian border postponed till 2025

    The Ukrainian State Border Service proposed to amend the plan for the implementation of the Wall project and to move the date for the completion of the fences on the border with Russia until 2025, said the Ukrainian  State Border Service in response to the inquiry by the public organization StateWatch.

    According to the State Border Service such a delay is caused by the lack of financing and also the increased cost of the construction material and labor. At the same time, the budget for the …

  • Kyiv: Russia intends to build a wall on the Ukraine-Crimea border

    In the spring of 2018 Russia is going to start construction of a so-called wall along the border between mainland of Ukraine and the annexed Crimea, as reported by the Press Secretary of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (State Border Guard Service), Oleh Slobodyan, to Hromadske TV.

    According to Slobodyan, any large-scale construction in the autumn-winter period is inexpedient and rather difficult.

    "The legal registration of this process will be completed before the New Year. …

  • The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine is investigating the appropriation of $3.8 million for the construction of a wall on the Russian border

    The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has launched a joint investigation together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) into a criminal scheme involving embezzlement and the appropriation of more than $3.8 million "in the procurement of goods, works and services in the interests of the State Tax Service of Ukraine.", as reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.

    According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, officials of the State Tax Service (STS) …