The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine expects the Russian Federation public assurances that Moscow will not use armed force against Kiev, according to a report by the press service of the Ministry.

the head of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin first asked the Federation Council for permission to use Russian armed forces abroad. The Federation Council blessed this appeal. The Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation informed that the Russian VKS aircraft began conducting air operations with the targeted killings by terrorists from the "Islamic country" in the Syrian Arab Republic. Russia wants to use only the aircraft, acting on the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, leading the fight against terrorists " Islamic countries ", said on Wednesday the head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov.

"We expect from the Russian Federation public assurances about the absence of any intentions regarding the use of opportunities provided by resolution of the Council of Federation against Ukraine, the consistent implementation of commitments under the Minsk agreements and bestlocation the withdrawal of its military might from the territory of Ukraine ", - reported in the report.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict steel not less than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict, support of militias and does not send in the Donbass troops. Anyway, Kiev and the West continues to blame Russia of "military aggression" and occasionally "find" in the East of Ukraine and in the border regions of Russia "certain units" of the armed forces, although international observers in the periodic inspections have never found any undeclared military activities.

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