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The terms Border Service of Russia (Russian: Пограничная служба России) and Border Force of Russia (Russian: Пограничные войска России) are also common, while in English, the terms "Border Guards" and "Border Troops" are frequently used to designate this service.
Ukraine caught Russia — as well as its Western allies — off guard on August 6 by launching a surprise attack on the Kursk border region, grabbing around 386 miles of territory in a matter of days.
Russian border guards have removed navigation buoys from the Estonian side of a river separating the two countries, the Baltic nation said on Thursday, adding that it would seek an explanation as ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin has agreed to withdraw Russian forces and border guards from various parts of Armenia at Yerevan's request, Putin's spokesman was cited as saying on ...
All legal national borders of Russia are controlled by the FSB Border Guard under the command of FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. Most of the men guarding the border in Kursk Oblast were young, inexperienced conscripts, lightly equipped army infantry units, and the National Guard (Rosgvardiya). [64] [65] [66] Some of the conscripts were ...
The border between South Ossetia and Georgia is manned jointly by the FSB and the South Ossetian State Security Committee (KGB) and have engaged in the practice of "creeping occupation" or "creeping annexation", where, periodically, Russian and South Ossetian forces move the border fence marking the boundary of South Ossetia deeper into Georgian territory a couple dozen meters at a time. [1]
The governor of Russia's Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said an attack on Wednesday by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance team had been thwarted by Russian border guards and military units.
The Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of Russia (Russian: Береговая охрана Пограничной службы ФСБ России, romanized: Beregovaya okhrana Pogranichnoy sluzhby FSB Rossii), previously known as the Maritime Units of the KGB Border Troops (Russian: Морские части Пограничных войск КГБ СССР), is the coast guard of Russia.