The situation in the militants-occupied village of Kominternove near Mariupol that is a part of so-called 'grey zone' remains stable and tense, representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukrainian Defense Ministry Vadym Skibitsky said. "Today the situation in Kominternove is stable and tense. There is a company of the ninth separate infantry regiment of the first army corps in a number of 80-100 people. A part of them are masked as civilians and pretend to be the local population," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday adding that this was a unit of Russian Armed Forces. Skibitsky reported that as of Tuesday, the enemy withdrew a part of the hardware from the village that according to him is kind of show-off and provocations. "Actions of the Russian side – units of the first army corps – are of demonstrative character. This provocation aimed at making ATO forces to respond to brought machinery and to provoke open fire and counter-offensive. It might be used by the Russian party to accuse Ukraine of the breach of Minsk Agreements," the directorate's representative said adding that Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation forces refrained from a response to this attack. "With no results achieved, Russian militants were instructed by the curators, changed their uniform into the civilian one and the guise of local residents testified to OSCE observers about periodic entrance of Ukrainian Armed Forces into Kominternove," Skibitsky said. He noted that today the militants hold "preventive conversations" with the local population. The intelligence service also said that on December 27 there was another provocation in this residential area, when Russian media reported that place with OSCE Special Monitoring Mission and Joint Coordination Center for Ceasefire Monitoring was shelled by the sniper.