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Instructors from Western countries are training the Ukrainian military, which undermines the settlement in the Donbas. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by the director of the Second Department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Polishchuk.
According to the diplomat, about 10,000 troops from NATO countries are currently deployed at military facilities and naval bases in Ukraine, 4,000 of them directly from the United States.
“Western instructors train the Ukrainian military, teach the conduct of offensive operations, including in urban areas,” said Polishchuk. Smolenskaya Square insists that such actions directly violate the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the 2015 Minsk Agreements. Indeed, according to the document, all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries must be withdrawn from the country. “This line of Western countries negatively affects the settlement of the conflict in Donbass,” concluded Aleksey Polishchuk.
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