DONETSK, Ukraine. March 17 (Interfax) - The Donetsk region governor said he and his brother had a moat dug out over the weekend on the region's border with Russia to prevent "any means of transportation or piece of armament" bypassing checkpoints in crossing the frontier into Ukraine.
"My brother and I had a moat four meters wide dug out over the weekend along the entire length of the section of the border, having paid our own money for it. This means that passing through the checkpoints is the only way that any means of transportation or piece of armament can get into the region," governor Serhiy Taruta, who is an oligarch, told a briefing on Monday.
He denied rumors that border guards posted on the Donetsk section of the Ukrainian-Russian frontier have been moved to the regions of Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk. He claimed that all the guards deployed in Donetsk region were still serving there.