Dmitry Zlatarev. The U.S. does not consider the conduct bilateral military exercises on Ukraine by the failures of the Minsk agreements, said Tuesday the official authorized state Department Marie Harf.

"It is not the failures of the Minsk agreements ", - she said at the regular briefing for reporters.

in her expressions, the narrative is " about bilateral cooperation, which lasts for about 20 years."" This is done at the invitation of the Ukrainian government And is part of our long-term partnership in the defense industry on the basis of full transparency ".

Harf did not see in the conduct of such exercises " nothing unexpected "." We did It under different governments of Ukraine. I don't remember the Ukrainian government invited Russian separatists. And I don't remember that Russia objected to such teachings when (former President Viktor) Yanukovych, " - said the Commissioner of the state Department.

Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in Minsk talks Denis Putilin said that the DNR considers the arrival of instructors from the USA to Ukraine as an attempt to escalate the confrontation in the Donbass. He also expressed concern that after the training of foreign equipment can remain within Ukraine. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the military training from the U.S. Ukrainians possession of weapons And appliances of the Western sample can be regarded as the 1st step to supplies to Ukraine modern American weapons.

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