American General Ben Hodges, speaking about 12 thousand Russian military in Ukraine, made a failed attempt to impress on employees of the state Department, said the official, authorized by the Russian defense Ministry, major-General Igor Konashenkov. "He called the number 12 thousand People is a serious army group with thousands of pieces of different mechanisms, which on a narrow patch of" separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions "snow will not sprinkled," Konashenkov said, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". Such statements were "unsuccessful attempt of General Hodges to impress the female half of the U.S. state Department," he suggested, Commissioner of the Ministry of defense of Russia." Official representatives of this Department, far from the reality of war, then it is easy to refer to such "authoritative" assessment: the size for them is of great importance, " said Konashenkov. Yesterday the commander of the army in the European Union, Lieutenant-General Frederick Ben Hodges said that, based on examination of the U.S. military, in the Donbass on the side of the militias fighting to 12 thousand Soldiers from Russia. Kiev and Western countries have repeatedly stated that Ukraine is Russian troops. So, on March 2, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Payette again said about the evidence of the presence of troops of Russia in the Donbas." we have satellite data, we have different sources of evidence. Also many materials that currently appear due to Western correspondents, " he said, adding that the regular part of the Russian army took part in Debaltsevo. In Kiev acknowledged claimed to have data about the participation of individual Russian Citizens and soldiers of the Russian army in the armed conflict in the Donbass. Thus the chief of the General staff of the armed forces of Ukraine Colonel-General Viktor Murzenko said that the Ukrainian army keeps fighting with periodic parts of the Russian army. Moscow, for its part, has stated many times that is not involved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia emphasize that all charges against her unsubstantiated. Columnist of the journal of Strategic Culture Foundation, writer and journalist Finian Cunningham believes that the understanding of Western countries conflict in Ukraine is distorted due to the systematic disinformation and lividuals "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, which the U.S. government provides Kiev.
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