The security service of Ukraine published a List of soldiers of the 3rd separate brigade of special purpose GRU of the General staff of Russia, as if located in the territory of Ukraine, said the head of informatiemanagement counterintelligence SBU Vitaly Naida.
according to him, employees of the group have extensive experience in military conflicts within third countries, for example in Tajikistan - in 1992, both Chechen campaigns in Kosovo and Afghanistan, reports " Ukrainian truth ". The list shown in the representation of the SBU.
"Since March 2014, the special forces of the GRU of the General staff of Russia are illegal in Ukraine," said Naida, adding that the first brigade, as if it were in Crimea, and the completion of annexation was relocated in the Donbass, and the headquarters of the 2nd separate battalion, 3 brigade is located in Lugansk, street Vatutina." From about April of last year they are located in the Luhansk region in a rotational order. We clearly identified that the headquarters of the second separate battalion of the 3rd separate brigade is located in Lugansk ", - he said." We clearly know that Since April, they have held a minimum of four rotations, each time to the site of Ukraine arrived about 200 - 220 Russian spetsnaznachenija", he said. Naida added that At the moment the main part of the brigade moved out on the ground in Russia " in order to hide its presence from international organizations. Before Thursday the Deputy head of the OSCE special monitoring mission Alexander hug said that representatives of the OSCE visited the captured Ukrainian security forces in the Luhansk oblast of Russian citizens, the results of the visit will be set forth in the daily report of the Special monitoring mission (SMM). Remember, Sunday is the day the media announced the arrest in the village, the Happiness of the military, who called himself a Russian contract soldiers serving in the special forces. However, later the same day 1st Deputy commander of people's militia LNR Sergey Kozlov said that in reality the Kiev military won captured 2 soldiers of the people's militia of the Luhansk national Republic. The Russian defense Ministry has revealed that the detainees in Ukraine, the militia are former Russian military. In the Russian defense Ministry asked them to stop the torture and release of two former soldiers. Later Advisor to the head of the security service of Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky said that captured under the Happiness captured Ukrainian security forces Russians charged with terrorism. On Wednesday the Staff of the international Department of the red cross (ICRC) met With detainees at the Happiness in the Luhansk region the Russians. Moscow has stated many times that it is not involved in the events in southeastern 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 the charges against her are unproven.

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