Moldova / Ukraine

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Criva - Lipcani area: Bordermarkers 0011 - 0020
Second part of the first day in March 2025. The remote area between Criva and Lipcani.
EE-RU  20160415 Map 0011-0020
Between Criva and Lipcani. A remote and uninhabited area, some markers are hard to reach.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0011
The border leaves the creek.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0012
Although remote, the Ukrainians made a deep ditch. I wonder why the Moldovans sometimes decorate the area of the border markers with white stones.

Border marker 0013
This pair was hard to reach. No road or path, only dense forest. On Ukrainian side there was open space. Some Ukrainian uniformed woodcutters permitted us to use the open space on their side. Close to BM 0013 the ditch appeared again.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0014
On Ukrainian side there is a small rural road which runs very close to the border. Extra bared wire to avoid illegal border crossing.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0015
The small Ukrainian road leaves the border here. On Moldovan side hard to reach.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0016
The border makeas an angle to the east and runs through a small lake. No ditch yet here.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0017
On Ukrainian side again the same rural road. I think it's not publicly accessable. From Moldovan side this pair of border markers was hard to reach. We had to walk for half an hour to reach it. No path or road through abandoned farmlands.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0018
Also not easy to reach. The small road on the map didn't exist any longer so we had to walk through the woods or through the very sticky clay in the fields to reach it.

Border marker 0019
Close to the railroad in Lipcani. The railroad is in use for freight trains between Criva where there is a big stone mine and Ukraine where the stones are used. This railroad crosses the border a few times.

Border marker 0020
At the local border crossing Lipcani-Podvirivka. This border crossing is only in use for local traffic.
Once there was a duty-free store, but it's closed now.
Not much traffic here: mainly pedestrians between the surrounding villages.
The whole setting looks a bit bleak and dilapidated

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Intro 0001-0010 0011-0020 0021-0030 0031-0040 0041-0050 0051-0060 0061-0070 0071-0080 0081-0090 0091-0100 0101-0204 0478-0570 (PMR) 0571-0781