Department of State: United States could not confirm the reports of the invasion of the Ukraine of Russian armored vehicles

Department of State: United States could not confirm the reports of the invasion of the Ukraine of Russian armored vehicles

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Earlier, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the country was destroyed by a column of Russian armored vehicles

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. The United States still do not have confirmation that at the end of last week’s column of Russian armored vehicles allegedly penetrated into the territory of Ukraine and there was destroyed. This was August 18 at a press briefing said the deputy head of the press service of the State Department Marie Harf.

“We are gathering more information about the message of the Ukrainian side that their security forces destroyed a Russian military column on the territory of Ukraine”, – said Harf. “At the moment, still we can not confirm these reports,” – she added.

Earlier, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said British Prime Minister David Cameron that the country entered a column of Russian armored vehicles, which was destroyed. In the Regional Office of the FSB Border Service stated that the information that appeared in a number of foreign, including Ukrainian, the media about the alleged intersection column of armored personnel carriers of the Russian-Ukrainian border is untrue. In this case, the official web-site of President of Ukraine states that information on crossing the border “is true and confirmed as much of this equipment was destroyed by artillery Ukrainian night”.

The British Foreign Office summoned the Russian ambassador

On Friday, August 15, Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko was summoned to the Foreign Office for an explanation of the events around Ukraine. The agency has caused the Russian ambassador “for an explanation of the reports of the Russian military penetration into the territory of Ukraine and to remain focused on the technology frontier.”

“Information is not true”

The information that appeared in some foreign, including the Ukrainian media about the alleged intersection of a column of armored personnel carriers of the Russian-Ukrainian border is untrue.

He explained that “in connection with the regular firing of the Russian Federation and the increasing incidence of mass transfer of Ukrainian servicemen of the Russian-Ukrainian border is taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of residents of the border towns.” “To do this, set up mobile teams from the Border Service of the FSB, which when handled residents about the ongoing shelling and armed clashes in the border zone, immediately put forward in these areas to ensure the security of the state border, and Russian citizens, as well as to prevent the infiltration of armed people on the territory of the Russian Federation”, – said the representative of a frontier.

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