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Poroshenko says some 5,000 Russian servicemen stay in Donbas

By Interfax-Ukraine.
Pro-Russian separatist soldiers stand next to battle tanks parked in a warehouse away from the frontline, after being withdrawn from their positions near the town of Novoazovsk in the Donetsk region on October 21, 2015.
Photo by AFP

MUNICH - Some 5,000 Russian servicemen stay in Donbas, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has stated.

“Some 5,000 Russian military men continue staying in Donbas,” Poroshenko said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

On February 8 Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko reported that about 7,000 Russian carrier officers stay in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

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