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Officials in Rostov Deny Russian Armored Vehicles Crossed Ukraine Border

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in Rostov Region has not confirmed information that a column of armored vehicles with Russian license plates crossed the border to Ukraine, FSB spokesman Nikolai Sinitsyn told RIA Novosti Friday.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 15 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in Rostov Region has not confirmed information that a column of armored vehicles with Russian license plates crossed the border to Ukraine, FSB spokesman Nikolai Sinitsyn told RIA Novosti Friday.

“Russia’s FSB border control in Rostov Region does not confirm this information,” Sinitsyn said.

Earlier, several foreign news agencies reported that a column of 23 military vehicles, a tanker truck with some convoy vehicles with Russian license plates, crossed into Ukraine through the Izvarino border checkpoint Thursday evening. According to the reports, the vehicles are not associated with the humanitarian aid convoy dispatched by Russia to the troubled Ukrainian regions.

The Ukrainian government and the West have long accused Russia of funneling heavy equipment, arms and rebels across the Ukrainian border to support the independence movement in the country’s east. Russia has repeatedly denied any such involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, which it calls a purely internal affair.

In the latest move, earlier this week NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said there was a “high probability” the Russian humanitarian aid might be a pretext for a military incursion into Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed the allegations, calling them absurd.

Earlier this week, Russia sent a convoy of 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to southeastern Ukraine. The convoy is carrying medical supplies, food, baby food, sleeping bags and other basic necessities.

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