Moscow – Andriy Purhin, first deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said he doubts the statement by Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov that Ukrainian troops have completed the closure of the Ukrainian-Russian border.

“It can, of course, be said that there is a garden blooming on the moon, but we all understand that it’s not so. They may have closed something in Sumy or Kharkiv regions, but there is a war going on here and they have not taken anything under their control here, not have they erected any walls or barbed wire,” Purhin said in a phone conversation with Interfax.