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Russian Foreign Ministry: West Deploying Militants Disguised as Instructors to Ukraine

© Sputnik / Stringer / Go to the mediabankCanadian instructors train Ukrainian service persons as part of UNIFIER operation at Yavorivsky training range in the Lviv Region.
Canadian instructors train Ukrainian service persons as part of UNIFIER operation at Yavorivsky training range in the Lviv Region. - Sputnik International, 1920, 12.12.2021
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Western countries are transferring to Ukraine militants as disguised as instructors, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
"Ukraine is being pumped with armaments, meaning, direct supplies, future contracts, and, as you see, these are multi-million, billion contracts as a whole. It is about dispatching there militants disguised as instructors", Zakharova told the Russia broadcaster Krym 24.
Over the past several weeks, Kiev and some Western countries have accused Moscow of amassing troops near its border with Ukraine.
Moscow, for its part, has repeatedly rejected the accusations saying that the West wants to use them as an excuse to deploy NATO military equipment near the Russian border.
Russian servicemen during the Command Post exercise of the Airborne Force at the Opuk base in Crimea. - Sputnik International, 1920, 12.12.2021
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