Poroshenko saw the Russians, and the Russians saw provocation
Today, 06:25
Kiev yesterday announced the destruction of the column of heavy military equipment, allegedly deployed on the territory of Ukraine from Russia. The crossing of Russian armored vehicles boundaries originally came from the Western media.
In the Russian defense Ministry has categorically denied this information, but the Russian foreign Ministry said that Kiev was occupied by the cheating of a high level". Meanwhile, partly cleared the fate of the Russian convoy with humanitarian aid for Donbass: working on its customs clearance joined Ukrainian experts and representatives of the red cross.
Yesterday the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron said that the Ukrainian artillery destroyed part of the column of heavy military equipment, which was allegedly deployed on Ukrainian territory of the Russian Federation. From the message on the website of the President of Ukraine should: Petro Poroshenko data confirmed the British media that Thursday night Russian armored vehicles crossed the Ukrainian border. "This information is reliable," says the website. However, in the version that was originally published by press service of Mr. Poroshenko as a result of his conversation with the British Prime Minister, the passage about the night incident was not - he was added to the text a few hours later.
In the night of Friday, The Telegraph and The Guardian reported that a convoy of 20 vehicles and army trucks with Russian numbers were close to the Ukrainian border, and then crossed it near the checkpoint Donetsk--Izvarino. Journalists of both publications claim that saw armoured vehicles followed a dirt road along the border, and then penetrated into the gap in the barbed wire fence that separates Russia from Ukraine. "When the column moved on Ukrainian territory, in the twilight, he could see the outlines of armed men," he told The Guardian, adding that Kyiv has no control over these segment boundaries (Izvarino control militias).
Before the statement of the press service Poroshenko information British media confirmed at the headquarters of the "Antiterrorist operation" of Ukraine: "According to intelligence reports, a column of armored personnel carriers and military factory crossed the border and through temporarily closed transmission Izvarino entered the territory of our state. Number and identification marks on the technique were Russian."
Concern about the "Russian invasion" expressed yesterday and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. And the foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius has said, according to him, in the night of Friday, not 20, and "70 units of the Russian military equipment" crossed the Ukrainian border.
The FSB border guard in the Rostov region information of the British media has denied yesterday morning. It was explained: the border areas patrulius mobile groups, but only on the territory of Russia. "Information about crossing the border by a group of servicemen of the Russian Federation does not correspond to reality," said the FSB.
In the evening, after Kiev said about the destruction of Russian armored vehicles, a statement was made by the representative of the defense Ministry, major-General Igor Konashenkov. According to him, "no Russian military columns, which allegedly crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border, night nor day,does not exist". "And it would be best if the Ukrainian artillery destroyed the phantom, not refugees or their own soldiers," said Mr. Konashenkov, adding that Moscow would not be surprised if the Ukrainian side will show his or burned equipment."
"All this is like cheating a high level, " said Kommersant, the Russian MFA representative Maria Zakharova.- Add in the message key on the content of the paragraph with the charge in the transition of the Russian armored vehicles of the border is a forgery of national importance". According to Ms. Zakharova, about the incident, which allegedly took place, "the world has learned almost a day later and it fixed thanks to the press release". "It's just some sharps",she concluded.
The information that a convoy of Russian military equipment stopped the Ukrainian border, not confirmed and the OSCE. As stated by the OSCE representative Shiv Sharma, working under the aegis of the organization of border monitoring mission on Thursday did not record the passage of military convoy of the Russian Federation across the border". About it, according to Shiva Sharma, the headquarters of the OSCE in Vienna informed the head of the observer mission Paul Picard.
In Vienna said: controlled Field the Picard mission is working "around the clock" on two of the Russian KPT - "Donetsk" and "Gukovo", that is, and on Thursday evening, when British journalists allegedly recorded the transfer of Russian armored vehicles to Ukraine, OSCE observers were on duty. However, as explained Shiv Sharma, observers do not leave the territory of the CPR.
The correspondent, who was on Thursday near the border recorded the movement of Russian military equipment on the road leading from highway M-4 in the direction of transmission "Donetsk". However, information that the convoy approached or crossed the border it has. Already after the article correspondent of The Guardian's Sean Walker in an interview with dozhd TV channel explained: understand that the convoy was on the Ukrainian side of the border, has allowed GPS determined location as Ukraine.
Meanwhile, partly cleared up the situation with the Russian humanitarian convoy for Donbass. Yesterday morning 41 the representative of the border guard of Ukraine and 18 Ukrainian customs officers arrived at the checkpoint "Donetsk", 20 km from which stopped the convoy. As predicted, "b", Ukrainian specialists will inspect and issue gonokami on the Russian side.
Head of operational activities of the International Committee of the red cross (ICRC) in Europe and Central Asia Laurent Korba urged the authorities of the Russian Federation and Ukraine "to do everything possible to quickly resolve the remaining issues with sending humanitarian convoy in the Donbass, adding: "given the complex logistics and security problems operation assistance will take some time."
Yesterday, the ICRC has also announced that it will invest in the Rostov region additional staff. At work now option column after inspection crosses the border and accompanied by red cross staff will travel to Lugansk (or one of the settlements near it). On the territory of Ukraine will be allowed only truck drivers "unaccompanied".
The ICRC yesterday cruised between the camp of the Russian humanitarian "KAMAZ" and CAT "Donetsk". ICRC spokesman Victoria Zotikova said that "the talks was to discuss the technical details of the clearance of cargo, border crossing". "The fact that the negotiations are going and there is such a triple contact between the ICRC, the Federation and Ukraine,which is already good," said she.
Meanwhile, according to her colleagues Laurent Korba, still remains unresolved the question of security guarantees for the convoy. The Russian foreign Ministry also said yesterday about possible sabotage of humanitarian columns: "there have been reports that subversive group punitive battalion "Aidar" plans to mine the individual sections of roads in the region, to destroy the trucks with humanitarian aid and the accompanying staff, and then to blame the terrorist militias".
The battles around Lugansk yesterday lasted all day. Sent by the Ukrainian authorities of Kharkiv humanitarian aid, however, managed to reach his destination: 50 wagons were unloaded in Starobelsk (100 km North of Kiev). "The warehouses are full, our truck arrived full, not empty," said Commissioner of the President of Ukraine on regulation in the Donbass Irina Gerashchenko.
This was a clear allusion to the outbreak in the Ukrainian and Western media discussion about why the number of Russian trucks (the journalists were allowed to remove their contents) were not loaded to the brim. One of the leaders of Russian convoy explained: "We can't fill the car up to the roof, otherwise they simply will not go." In addition, according to him, half-empty trucks needed in case of breakdown of other machines.
Resident of Lugansk Eugene told that the main products in the city are still there, but they are more expensive, but many people have no money, because they have not been paid salaries and pensions. Banks also do not work in Lugansk for two weeks with no electricity. Water is also fed intermittently. Drugs, according to Eugene, a few still working pharmacies can find.
And a resident of the Snow (Donetsk region) Alex reported that there working pharmacies no while in the city remain at least 20 thousand people.
Vadim Divers, Olga Kuznetsova, Elena Chernenko (kommersant.ru),
Central news Agency Novorossia
Novorus.info
