MOSCOW – The Kremlin reiterated on Friday that Russia has no troops in eastern Ukraine, in response to the accusations of the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, who estimated that more than 9,000 Russian soldiers are deployed in the conflict zone.“There (in Ukraine) may be citizens of all the countries: both Ukraine and Russia, and may be citizens of European countries,” said the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, according to Itar-Tass.
“But there are no Russian Armed Forces there, about what our colleagues in Ukraine and our colleagues in Europe and Washington have been speaking all the time,” Peskov added.
Earlier on Friday, Poroshenko announced the arrest of a Russian citizen two days ago near the village of Marinka during fighting between Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists, the most serious since a ceasefire reached in Minsk last February.
Peskov accused Kiev of “sabotage” to stir fighting in Marinka, while Poroshenko claimed that between 500 and 1,000 pro-Russian militants tried to storm the town, located nearly 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) west of Donetsk.
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