NATO says that the square of Ukraine there are about one thousand troops from Russia, and the Russian-Ukrainian border as if placed 20 thousand Russian soldiers, reports Reuters, citing an unnamed envoy of the Commonwealth.
Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to the conflict in the East of Ukraine. The official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday said that the Russian soldiers in Ukraine " no ", the Russian army there is fighting, there are volunteers who do not have the ability to stay away from those events that take place in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts ". The Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation stated that to clarify seriously the statements of NATO about as if Russian troops in Ukraine does not make sense. The defence Ministry also emphasized many times that does not supply the militia military equipment, ammunition and other assistance.
" reducing the number of military of the Russian Federation in the East of Ukraine claimed that it would be a good step, but we have no information on this. The fact that supposedly thousand Russian military remains in the East of Ukraine with significant amounts of military equipment, and about 20 thousand of the Russian military men are on the border line with Ukraine, " said an unnamed authorized NATO.
The state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin first noted that Russia has proposed to place at the border crossing on the border line with Ukraine authorized and OSCE observers, who said that do not record the movements of the military, military equipment across the border, and it is an established Fact.
Kyiv authorities from April conducted in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of residents of Donbas. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid-April in Ukraine were forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded.
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