- January 21, 2015
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President Peter Poroshenko said that the situation in eastern Ukraine may get worse as the separatists get reinforcements from Russia.
“Two thousand Russian troops crossed our border. Together with two hundred tanks and armored vehicles. We understand that this is very dangerous,” – said Poroshenko in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos.
Poroshenko also said that the Ukrainian military “ready to repulse the rebels”, but the authorities are set on a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the statement of Ukraine on the presence of Russian troops in the Donbas unfounded.
Asked by Bi BBC that Russia is prepared to do in order to stop the flow of weapons and troops across the border in the separatist-controlled areas of Ukraine, Lavrov has once again said that Moscow did not show evidence of the existence of this stream.
In the supply of arms and manpower Russia accused Ukraine and all the support her country; of the shipments or repeatedly blabbed quite transparently hinted separatists and Russians involved in the war; Finally, the Russian soldiers killed and taken prisoner on the territory of Ukraine. Moscow denies that the Russian regular troops in the territory of Ukraine. The dead Russian soldiers, according to Russian officials, were volunteers who were on vacation or leave time to cooperate for the army.
On Wednesday in Berlin should go negotiations of the foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany on the situation in eastern Ukraine.
Stopped attack
Kiev says that in the east of the country has increased the number of “Russian military unmarked” and military equipment. According to the command, Russian tanks seen in Krasnodon, miner and Torez.
Ukrainian security officials say militants using Russian military are trying to expand the territory under their control.
On Tuesday, separatists attacked several positions Ukrainian military with tanks and “Grad”, the press-center operations. Government troops retreated from one of the checkpoints in the Luhansk region.
“All of this indicates that a serious violation by the Russian side of the Minsk agreements and the continuation of military aggression against Ukraine,” – said the representative of a special operation command.
Ukrainian military state that stopped the advance of insurgents between settlements and Zymohiria Slavyanoserbsk, but in Donetsk airport, according to security officials, the separatists blew up the runway.
Pro-Russian separatists “Donetsk People’s Republic” in turn, argue that the Ukrainian military on Wednesday night carried out 30 attacks on rebel positions, and on Wednesday fired Gorlovka and Dokuchaevsk.
New Mobilization
January 20 in Ukraine began a partial mobilization, which may relate to more than 100 thousand people. The need for mobilization of power justify “the emergence of a real threat to the territorial integrity caused by the aggressive actions of the Russian Federation”.
At the same time, the Ukrainian government proposes to increase the size of the armed forces to 68,000 – up to 250 thousand people. As Prime Minister of Ukraine Yatsenyuk, the Government intends to make to the Verkhovna Rada appropriate bill in the near future.
The Security Service introduced throughout Ukraine “heightened level of counter-terrorism” after the recent bombings.
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