‘Putin’s Army’ violates Ukrainian border

“Putin’s Army” has joined the battalion Zarya and consist of about 900 people now, MP Oleksander Kuzmuk said in the Verkhovna Rada. The militants have armoured fighting vehicles, UNIAN reports.

There are up to 20 thousand members of illegal armed groupings in Lugansk and Ratsk Oblasts now, the Ukrainian troops announced earlier. There are local inhabitants and Russian citizens among them. Most of the latter crossed the Ukrainian border illegally.

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