ROSTOV-ON-DON. July 9 (Interfax) - Sixty-five foreign journalists were shown the damage caused to the Novoshakhtinsk multilateral automobile checkpoint on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Rostov region.
"No cases of redeployment of weapons, ammunition and military hardware have been detected by Russian border guards since the start of the conflict in Ukraine," Leonid Smyk, a spokesman for the regional office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Border Service, told journalists on Wednesday.
He showed journalists the damage caused to the buildings and the grounds of the checkpoint during artillery attacks on June 3 and June 6-7.
In particular, shells and projectiles launched during the attacks in those days damaged a water tower, a duty-free shop, a vehicle inspection post and pavement.
"This was the most popular checkpoint in the Rostov region, with a daily capacity of up to 7,000 people and 1,000 vehicles," Smyk said.
The Novoshakhtinsk checkpoint has been closed since June 30 because of no activities in the cross-border area.
Sixty-five journalists from around 30 foreign media outlets arrived to the Rostov region at the initiative of the Association of foreign correspondents accredited in Russia to clarify the situation in the areas bordering Ukraine. They are also to be shown a temporary accommodation center in the Krasny Sulin district and how Ukrainian refugees have been accommodated at the Donskoy resort center in Novocherkassk.