Russia sent 104 trains and 53 convoys of military and motor vehicles to Donbas since the beginning of 2017. This was stated in the materials published by Yevhen Marchuk, the representative of Ukraine in one of the subgroups in the Tripartite Contact Group for the Settlement of the Situation in the Donbas.

"When I hear the Russian propagandists writhing in hysteria over the possible transfer of defensive weapons to Ukraine by the United States and how it is sung by some of our so-called "experts," I submit a small fragment from the official materials that the Ukrainian side promulgates each time during the meetings of the working group on security issues in Minsk. This information is heard not only by the Russians but also by the coordinator of the work of our group from the OSCE in English translation. He is also the head of the OSCE SMM on Ukraine," Marchuk wrote on Facebook.

In July alone, illegal armed groups of Donbas received from Russia 4 tanks, 7 armored combat vehicles, 4 artillery systems, 7 missile artillery units, up to 8 motor vehicles, 103 tanks and 4 tank trucks with fuel, 19 railroad cars, and 10 freight vehicles of ammunition.

Within that same month, 44 cases of using unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance of the territory of Ukraine and 4 cases of using reconnaissance aircraft of the Russian Air Force were recorded.

Marchuk added that Russia denies these facts.

  Donbas, Russia, Ukraine

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