The Russian defense Ministry on Tuesday assured that in the Navy there is no " 16th airborne brigade from Orenburg, the data which is in the report of the OSCE.
"for the airborne part with this name does not exist", - has told RIA "news" the Commissioner of the press service and information of the Russian defense Ministry on the air force Colonel Yevgeny Meshkov.



on the first day of the week Authorized the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE said in a report on the situation in the Donbass, one of the guards in the depot in the unrecognized Donetsk people's Republic called the Russian paratrooper. He also said that He and other security guards warehouse (men in uniform without insignia) are the paratroopers of the 16th airborne brigade from Orenburg. The President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the statements by the OSCE on the Russian military in the Donbass, called such accusations "unfounded" and said that they came to Russia many times, but never received confirmation. Kiev also said that the information in the report of the OSCE presence in Donbass 16th airborne brigade from Orenburg untrue, since such groups do not exist. 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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