On the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, roadside billboards remind residents of the penalty for espousing “separatism”: prison terms of between five and seven years. A few miles further along the main road north are newly dug trenches, designed to conceal defensive tanks and heavy artillery. Further again are more lines of fortification: the wire fences, trenches, and concrete anti-tank obstacles along the Russian border that are part of Ukraine’s “Project Wall”. …read more
Source: The Independent
