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The situation with the Right Sector Ukrainian volunteer corps in Dnipropetrovsk region was discussed during the phone conversation of Chief of the General Staff Colonel General Viktor Muzhenko with Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh, the General Staff's press service reported.

“In the evening of April 28 and this morning [on April 29], Muzhenko and Yarosh carried some telephone talks. The parties discussed the implementation of preliminary agreements on cooperation and integration of the Right Sector in the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” reads the statement posted on Defense Ministry’s website on April 29.

According to the statement, the information that Ukrainian paratroopers’ allegedly blocked the volunteer Ukrainian corps’ base was used to destabilize the situation.

“Military exercise of Ukrainian high mobility paratroopers continues in Dnipropetrovsk region. All Internet statements over the situation in Dnipropetrovsk region meant to escalate pressure in the society. [The statements] can cause military provocations in Ukraine before the May holidays,” reads the statement.

In addition, the General Staff reminded that the views on volunteer armed formations remained the same: “All armed formations on Ukrainian territory must be legal and subjected to Ukrainian Armed Forces or other law enforcement agencies.”

As reported, on April 28, Yarosh said that paratroopers from 25th and 95th brigades of Ukrainian army had blocked Right Sector’s base in Dnipropetrovsk region and tried to disarm its soldiers.

All Right Sector detachments were instructed not to give up arms, as no one could prohibit them to protect Ukraine and fight Russian aggressors. They were also ordered not to fall for provocations.