President Vladimir Putin is facing a new kind of blowback from the war in Ukraine: weapons and intruders flowing out of the conflict zone and into Russia.
Accused by the U.S. and its allies of backing the rebels with arms and men, Russia is now digging ditches to halt munitions and smugglers moving east across its western frontier. Russia has so far dug about 100 kilometers (60 miles) of trenches 4 meters wide and 2 meters deep in the Rostov region, which borders both of Ukraine’s self-declared republics, Donetsk and Luhansk, the Border Guards Service said.
“It was done to create obstacles against intruders and the illicit entry of arms,” Andrei Timofeev, a spokesman for the service, said by phone from Rostov on Tuesday.
WNU Editor: Digging these trenches is just a public relations exercise. The Russian - Ukraine border is extremely long and not monitored. The black-market for weapons in Russia is also huge .... Russians are like Texans .... they love their guns, and if they can get an assault rifle without the Russian authorities knowing about it .... so much the better. And as for what the militant groups in the Caucasus may want .... they want the really "big stuff", and that in itself is an entirely different story.
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