Ukraine will construct a \u201cWall\u201d on the border with itself and Russia, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are beginning the \u2018Wall\u2019 project. This is the construction of an actual state border between Ukraine and the Russian Federation,\u201d Yatsenyuk said during a government session.<\/p>\n
Earlier the same day, Yatsenyuk said Kiev needed to create a new military doctrine that would reflect that Russia as an \u201caggressor nation,\u201d threatening the territorial integrity and national security of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s junta meanwhile has embarked on a military ethnic cleansing campaign to oust Russian-speakers from the country.<\/p>\n
The statement was made a day after Russian Security Council deputy head Mikhail Popov said Russia would adjust its military doctrine by the end of 2014 to reflect new security threats, including the expansion of NATO, US missile shield plans and the political crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Kiev launched a military operation in Ukraine\u2019s southeastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk in mid-April to suppress independence supporters who refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government after a February coup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ukraine will construct a \u201cWall\u201d on the border with itself and Russia, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Wednesday. \u201cWe are beginning the \u2018Wall\u2019 project. This is the construction of an actual state border between Ukraine and the Russian Federation,\u201d Yatsenyuk said during a government session. Earlier the same day, Yatsenyuk said Kiev needed … Continue reading “Ukraine to construct ‘Wall’ on Russian border”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[5850,7484,9899],"class_list":["post-15716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-russian-federation","tag-ukraine","tag-wall"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15717,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}