The Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation explains the message of the U.S. state Department about " Russian military presence in Ukraine by the desire to whet the public yesterday the NATO summit.

before the official authorized state Department Marie Harf in the process of briefing, said that " now in the East of Ukraine is the highest since the beginning of August the number of Russian air defense systems ".

"All is simple. Yesterday the next NATO summit in Antalya, Turkey, which will be held from 13 to 14 may, began "warming up" the public Russophobic accusations, moreover, as we observed, these speakers do not bother bringing any arguments, " - said the official representative of the Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov.

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