MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - All is stable on the Russian-Ukrainian border, yet tensions are growing on the Donbas contact line, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"The situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border is indeed stable," Peskov said at a press briefing on Thursday.
"As for the contact line, I mean the line of contact with the territory of the unrecognized, self-proclaimed republics, we can see that tensions are rising there," he said.
He thus commented on statements of the Ukrainian military, which assessed the situation in the Donbas conflict zone as stable despite a series of strikes delivered by "the forces of occupation."
Peskov asked the journalist which units were described as the forces of occupation, and the journalist assumed they could be Russian.
"Russian forces are not occupying anything," Peskov said.
The Ukrainian military has repeatedly said they are not observing "any excessive Russian potential in the Russian territory, which strongly contravenes the statements made in other countries, which keep referring to their intelligence information unconfirmed by the Ukrainians," he said.