LUHANSK. July 4 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian servicemen are faking the evidence of Russian troops' deployment to Donbas, Mikhail Filiponenko, acting chief of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic's (LPR) militia, said.
"Ukrainian security services are forging IDs of the captured militiamen at present, passing them off as Russian career officers," Filiponenko told reporters.
Such actions of Kyiv are aimed at "justifying the military operation in Donbas," he said.
"The Ukrainian side thus continues to deliberately falsify the evidence of the alleged deployment of Russian servicemen to Donbas and violations of the Minsk Agreements committed by the LPR. I must point out that it happens throughout the entire period of the conflict, as a rule, prior to important international meetings. In this case prior to the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on July 5," he said.
The LPR militia said earlier that on June 24 the Ukrainian Armed Forces special operations force's reconnaissance and sabotage team attacked a group of the LPR servicemen who were delivering food to militiamen on the contact line. As a result of the attack, two militiamen were killed, and four captured.
At that, the Ukrainian side said that Russian servicemen were among the captured persons.