Since the beginning of the year, 2500 groups engaged in organizing illegal border crossing have been exposed in Ukraine - Ministry of Internal Affairs
Kyiv • UNN
Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko spoke about the improvement of control on Ukraine's borders with the EU and Moldova. Over the past year, 2,500 criminal groups involved in organizing illegal border crossings were eliminated.
The situation with the control of illegal border crossings of Ukraine on the border with EU member states and Moldova, including Transnistria, is improving, as local authorities, border guards and law enforcement agencies are working on this issue. This was reported by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko to Suspilne, UNN reports.
According to him, this work is precisely the "technical arrangement" of the borders, which have a total length of about 2,000 kilometers.
"Technically, to equip a border is not just to put up a fence or a net. The fence can be climbed over, and the grid can be cut. Here we are talking about integrated control, which should be at least 2 kilometers to the state border. We are talking about roads that are not there in the right quantity, video surveillance cameras that cover 5 to 10 kilometers of territory so that border guards can respond in time and prevent possible border violations," the Interior Minister explained.
Klymenko noted that over the current year, the National Police, in cooperation with the State Border Guard Service and the Security Service of Ukraine, "stopped the existence" of 2,500 groups that were engaged in organizing illegal border crossings.
"We are talking about criminal groups that, for example, used to be involved in smuggling and then switched to organizing illegal border crossings. Currently, most of these cases are already in court, and some are still being developed. But we have significantly reduced the number of people involved in this criminal business," he said.
The minister admitted that law enforcement officers, border guards, and local officials are also involved in illegal border crossing schemes.
"But if there were no such relatively open border, it would be very difficult for anyone involved in such criminal schemes to transfer a person across the border," Klymenko stated.
Recall
On August 26, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the creation of a plan to counter collaborators and illegal border crossings.
