The Russian Foreign Ministry has sent a note of protest to Ukraine over the violation by Ukrainian soldiers of the joint border with Russia in the Kuibyshevsky district of its Rostov region, the ministry said in a statement posted on its website on June 13.
“We see such actions by the Ukrainian side as a gross violation of
the fundamental provisions of the international law, as an unlawful act
that will not facilitate a peaceful resolution of the armed conflict in
South-East Ukraine,” the ministry said in the statement.
Russia has demanded that this sort of provocations should stop as
they “hamper the incipient process of restoring the bilateral
Russian-Ukrainian dialogue.”
It was reported earlier that two armored vehicles of the Ukrainian
armed forces had illegally crossed the Russian border in the
Kuibyshevsky district of the Rostov region in the early hours of June
13.
Following the incident Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry
Peskov told Interfax that Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Foreign
Ministry to present a demarche to Ukraine over the violation of the
Russian border by Ukrainian soldiers.
