The Ministry of defence has denied accusations by NATO on the deployment of troops under the guise of training exercises
The Russian defense Ministry denied reports of the Secretary-General of NATO about the fact that the Russian Federation, as if it uses doctrine to hide the movement of troops on Ukraine: polygons, which are Russian military exercises, are hundreds of kilometers from the border.
before Wednesday, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he believes that the Russian Federation uses military training, to conceal the movement of troops to Ukraine.
"must once again explain our Washington and Brussels partners that range" Ashuluk and Kapustin Yar, where the doctrine is almost 800 kilometers from the South-East of Ukraine. And polygon "Pemba" - generally in the Northern part of Russia, almost three thousand kilometers from Donetsk ", - told reporters on Thursday the head of the press service and information of the Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov.
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.
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.