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 Russia has accumulated tanks with Ukrainian identifying insignia on the border with Ukraine, possibly for provocations, the spokesman for the information center of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), Volodymyr Chepovy, has said.

“Military hardware, including tanks with Ukrainian identifying insignia, as well as servicemen dressed in Ukrainian Armed Forces uniforms, were seen in the Russian Federation near the village of Millerovo, Kuibyshev district, Rostov region,” he said at a briefing on Saturday. 

He said that this could be aimed at “committing provocations in Ukraine or even in Russia.”