Addressing the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko showed off covers of Russian passports and military IDs, claiming they prove "Russian presence” in the conflict-torn East Ukraine.
Moscow then asked Kiev to provide copies of the documents on Saturday evening, as “document covers like the ones shown yesterday can easily be bought on the street market," Viktor Sorokin, head of the Second CIS Department at Russia’s foreign ministry, said.
Kiev has been blaming Moscow of assisting the mostly Russian-speaking independence supporters in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have carried out a military operation since April 2014.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not involved in the Ukrainian conflict in any way, rejecting claims that Russia provides Ukrainian pro-independence militia with military assistance.
