Statement from Moscow: Russian soldiers entered Ukraine “by mistake”

Russian soldiers with Kamensk Schachtinski (archives picture): Border crossing was “inadvertent”, says the Russian Ministry of Defense

The Ukrainian military took according to their own statements ten Russian paratroopers imprisoned. The Muscovite the Ministry of Defense confirms the border crossing in the region Donezk - and speaks of a mistake.
Moscow - a Russian border patrol entered Ukrainian area. Interfax an employee of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow confirms according to the agency. The Russian soldiers were arrested by Ukraine. The border crossing happened however on a not marked place “by mistake”. The arrest ran without resistance.

This statement Kiev contradicts: The taken prisoner soldiers were not “inadvertent” in country, but on a “special mission”, a spokesman of the Ukrainian military explained. Before the Ukrainian military had announced, at the edge of the combat zone in the region Donezk ten Russian paratroopers had been imprisoned taken. They would have had, communicated Russian documents of identification with itself the security council in Kiev. “The repetitive Russian penetration into Ukraine is unacceptable, dangerous and riotously”, explained the national security advisor of the USA, Susan Rice, already on Monday evening on Twitter. Russia penetrated with “dozens tanks and soldiers” in the neighboring country, so the reproach. A “clear escalation” in the Ukraine crisis is that, like that Rice. It did not submit proofs.

 Poroschenko in Minsk landed
Meanwhile the fights in east Ukraine continue: The Ukrainian military destroyed twelve armed vehicles in Nowoasowsk. To it artillery and Air Force were involved, said military spokespersons Andrij Lysenko. Also the Russian separatists would continue their attacks in the city, would burn a hospital. According to Lysenko in the past 24 hours twelve humans died. Ukrainian president Petro Poroschenko and his Russian colleague Wladimir Putin are to meet on this Tuesday. With a crisis meeting in the Byelorussian Minsk they are to negotiate for the first time again about a solution in the conflict around east Ukraine. Poroschenko already arrived in Minsk. In the message of its country he wanted to speak first with the European Union-Außenbeauftragten Catherine Ashton - also about the fight of the Ukrainian army against per-Russian separatists. Poroschenko had dissolved the parliament on Monday and had set new elections for 26 October. “The preferred parliamentary elections are part of my peace plan”, communicated it.