Russia supplies to the Ukrainian insurgents through its southern regions tanks and multiple rocket launchers, says the Commissioner of the state Department of the USA Marie Harf, pointing to Kiev and some video on the Internet.
" our assessment is that the separatists in the Eastern Ukraine received heavy armament and military equipment from Russia, including Russian tanks and multiple rocket launchers. We have data that the Russian Federation is concentrated in the South-West tanks of this type, which no longer applies its army, and some of them were sent, " said Harf.
the Commissioner of the state Department indicates the source data of the interested party - the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine, and also some videos on the Internet.
" Russia will declare that these tanks were captured from the Ukrainian forces, but in this region was not the Ukrainian tank units. We are sure that the tanks from Russia. We also have information that the Russian Federation there, on the South-West, has focused multiple rocket launchers, and They, too, was sent (to Ukraine). On the video in the Internet you can see what We think those shoes, " says Harf. In her expressions, we can talk About tanks T-64 BM-21 " Grad ".
the use of the Ukrainian troops heavy weapons against the Eastern regions the state Department believes unproven, for example, calling false messages about illegal phosphorous bombs.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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