The United States believes that the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on preservation of state secrets, the loss of soldiers in special operations in non-force time, is "an attempt to hide the losses" in Ukraine, said the Commissioner of the state Department Jeff the Mini.

Ukrainian Authorities and Western countries have repeatedly accused the Russian Federation of interfering in Ukraine's internal Affairs. Moscow has stated many times that completely uninvolved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine, does Not supply the militia military equipment and ammunition, is Not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis.

"We know about the law. We see it in a failed attempt to hide what is known to everyone: the Russian military who are on active duty, fight and die in the East of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Russia denies it, " said Commissioner of the state Department.

"Broadly stated about the fact that before crossing the border Russian troops often remove the insignia from the form, leave passports and other identity credentials, paint over the car to clean up Russian flags and other emblems, which they can identify. All this is done to hide the direct intervention of Russia in the events in Eastern Ukraine ", - said Ratke.

"We also believe that this law is a blow to freedom of the press. We believe that a free and independent press is an integral part of civil society and call on the Russian Federation Not to violate the spirit of the Helsinki principles, under which Russia, the U.S. and our European colleagues have signed 40 years ago, " said Ratke." We believe that this law seems to be an attempt to obstruct the lighting (in press) these facts, " he added.

on a question, whether there are the failures of press freedom multiple security classifications that impose on US data about their own operations, Ratke said only that North America respect the freedom of the press. Re the question on what grounds the US judge about what can and can't do the secret Cabinet of Ministers of Russia, Ratke said, " I don't think anyone denies the fact that All governments classify data.

before Thursday, the press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the presidential decree on the preservation of state secrets in the loss of soldiers in special operations in non-force time is Not associated with the conflict in the Donbas, Putin does Not want to authorize special operations in Ukraine. According to Peskov, the imposition of secrecy corresponds to the public interest.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 2 thousand people.

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