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Russia has built a 37-mile fence between Ukraine and Crimea, the territory that Russia annexed in 2014, according to Russian media.

The move was necessary “to protect the local population from the crazy antics of the current Ukrainian government,” claimed a spokesman for the de facto Crimean parliament.

Ukrainian authorities are calling the move “mere propaganda.”

More than 10,000 people have been killed in the conflict between Moscow-backed separatists and Ukraine since it was touched off in 2014, according to the United Nations.

The European Union has condemned the annexation as a violation of international law.

With Post wires