It is noted that in the war with Russia, the border guards are now being trained as a military combat unit. Already this year the number of mobile groups and the density of protection at the border will increase.
Also this year, the border guards will receive nine billion hryvnias from the budget and help from a special helicopter unit. A detachment of military vehicles should appear in a month. He will help both the military and the police.
On the new detachment of combat aircraft in detail do not tell, it is known only that from the budget it has already been allocated 1.3 billion UAH.
While smugglers and violators are being driven along the border by Ukrainian drones, the Spectator. Over the year, the training center has trained seven crews: five hundred combat sorties and no lost drone.
As previously reported in URA-Inform, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the need to strengthen the protection of the external borders of the European Union.