MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax) - The plans to form a Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian military unit are aimed at the subsequent occupation of Western Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"The matter is not about some gathering of mercenaries, - there's enough of them there, and they're being neutralized, - but specifically about a regular, put-together, equipped military unit, which they are planning to use in actions in the territory of Ukraine," Putin said at an ad-hoc meeting with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council.
"Including, in allegedly ensuring security of the modern Western Ukraine, and in reality, if to call things by their proper names, in the subsequent occupation of these territories. Because the prospects are clear, if Polish units enter, for instance, Lvov or other territories of Ukraine, they will stay there. And they will stay there forever," he said.