11:15 12.05.2018

Kyiv dismisses Moscow's accusations that Ukrainian Donbas veterans threatened its diplomat at UN

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Kyiv dismisses Moscow's accusations that Ukrainian Donbas veterans threatened its diplomat at UN

Claims by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova that Ukrainian veterans who fought in Donbas had been threatening a Russian diplomat at the UN premises are untrue, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.

"An eloquent example of Russian officials spreading fakes... Russian statements are insinuations," the ministry's spokeswoman, Mariana Betsa, wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

A day earlier Zakharova told journalists after an information committee meeting in New York that Ukrainian veterans of the Donbas operation had been making physical threats against a Russian diplomat at the UN.

The Russian, who attended the event, was threatened by Ukrainian special-operation veterans, she said.

"The Ukrainian side invited, as it claimed, ATO veterans, including people, who were introduced as snipers coming from the south-east of Ukraine, to the media event," Zakharova said.

"Following this event, those people clad in camouflage approached a Russian representative, press officer of the Russian Foreign Ministry, and started making death threats on the sidelines of the UN. People clad in camouflage were running around the UN, yelling, taking photographs of Russian diplomats and threatened them. Those were direct threats," Zakharova said.

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