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Former commander of the Internal Troops of Ukraine Stanislav Shulyak claims that ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych asked Russia about a peacekeeping mission.

During his video testimony in Kyiv’s Obolonskiy district court, he said that the relevant appeal was sent to the Russian leadership on March 1, 2014, Ukrainska Pravda wrote on May 17.

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