Ukraine will reduce the number of roadblocks on the roads leading to settlements, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. Now there are about 1,500 checkpoints in Ukraine, in the future this figure will drop to 800-900, Ukrinform writes..

Adviser to the Minister Vadim Denisenko explained that with the start of a full-scale Russian invasion, almost no one regulated their appearance - in every settlement, the defense tried to build its own checkpoints.

Later, the local authorities, together with the police, the National Guard and the defense, began to work on optimizing all these checkpoints and normal communication between them..

“At the beginning of last week, their number was reduced to about 1,500 throughout the country, now their optimization continues. In general, I think we will reach somewhere around 800-900 in the coming days..

That is, this will be enough to ensure, on the one hand, security, on the other hand, normal logistics throughout the country,” Denisenko added..

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Fighters on duty at checkpoints make it impossible for Russian sabotage groups to move between settlements. Thanks to checkpoints, hundreds of saboteurs were detained (captured, wounded and killed). The goals of saboteurs: destabilization, attempts to seize buildings, an attempt to intimidate the population, committing sabotage, killing certain people, etc..