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 Acting Chief of Ukraine's Presidential Administration Serhiy Pashynsky has said that Ukraine will regard Russian troops crossing the Ukrainian border as an invasion and will give an immediate military response.

 “If Russian troops cross the Ukrainian border and enter Donetsk region or any other region, we will qualify this as a military invasion and will destroy the attackers. We are not accepting any misleading claims about some humanitarian actions,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on April 25.