In recent years the Russian Federation has intensified the transfer of military equipment, weapons and soldiers in the territory of the occupied part of Donbas, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov has said.

"A large number of military vehicles, tanks, multiple launch rocket systems, etc. is delivered through the uncontrolled area of Ukrainian-Russian border from the territory of the Russian Federation," he said.

According to him, military equipment, weapons, armaments, munitions, fuel and lubricants are imported systematically and in an orderly manner almost every day "both by motorways and railway."

Turchynov noted that over the last three days only, a significant number of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, light multi-purpose armored towing vehicles, Grad MLRSs, Pion 2S7 (203 mm) and Giatsint 2A36 (152 mm) self-propelled guns were relocated from the Russian Federation to Donbas.

"Reinforcement is provided for Russian hybrid troops deployed all along the delimitation line," he said adding that undisguised recruitment of contractors to participate in hostilities in the east of Ukraine is conducted in Russian military commissariats.

"All this may indicate at Russia's readiness for further escalation of hostilities in Donbas," the secretary of the NSDC said adding that Russia will not be able to hide its bloody acts of aggression against Ukraine from the international community.