Normal border troops will appear in Russia, The decision to restore them has already been made.. This was announced by State Duma Deputy Lieutenant General Andrey Gurulev.
In Russia, they decided to recreate the border troops in the form, in which they existed before 2003 of the year. With a high probability, this decision was influenced by raids by Ukrainian sabotage groups on the territory of the border regions of Russia, including the Belgorod region. This decision has been long overdue., the modern Border Guard Service of the FSB clearly cannot cope with the tasks of protecting the state border.
The most significant event today – a decision was made to recreate the border troops. We talked about it, the military method of protecting the state border is extremely relevant. I don't know if we heard or not, but the decision has been made- Gurulev said.
At the moment there are no details on this issue., There was also no official announcement from the Ministry of Defense.
Recall, that in Russia there was a separate Federal Border Service - the High Command of the Border Troops of the Russian Federation, reporting directly to the President. AT 2003 year, as part of the reform and optimization, the Border Troops abolished, instead they created the Border Service of the FSB. Eventually, instead of the border troops, the border service appeared, ie. actually “border police” with paramilitary security functions, incapable of countering well-armed enemy groups.
Instead of special forces, which have always been border units, capable of counteracting entire military groups and well-armed organized gangs, we got a paramilitary structure of very limited functionality, suitable, rather, for supervision and supervision- experts said, commenting on the reform.
