Ukrainian security forces will fully control the border with Russia next week

Ukraine's Defense Minister - gen. Mikhail Koval
Russia Today: 15. June 2014

Donbas region, Ukraine. Maps show current rebel-controlled areas, June 15 2014 

Ukrainian security forces will fully control the country's eastern border with Russia next week, Ukraine's Defense Minister Mikhail Koval told Ukrainian television today (on Sunday), saying that the president's Poroshenko "clear objectives in this regard" will be performed "from A to Z.” 

Ukraine's Defense Minister, gen. Mikhail Koval

According to the minister, the Ukrainian side has closed almost 250 km of its state borders. "In just a few days we will physically close the whole state border with our armed forces units and will create a buffer zone," announced Koval.

Minister Mykhailo Koval said on June 14 that in the past 24 hours over 250 insurgents, a significant number of them Russian citizens, were eliminated in the zone of the counterterrorist operation, the Ukraine presidential press service reports.