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Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko at a meeting with United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson has raised the issue of concentration of Russian military equipment along the Ukrainian-Russian border.

“Yelchenko attracted Eliasson’s attention to the concentration of Russian armaments along the Ukrainian-Russian border, Crimea and Donbas,” the Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations wrote on its Twitter page.

The officials also discussed the unlawful visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.