Jens Stoltenberg officially declared that the statement of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin about certain "a NATO legion" in the Ukrainian army - a nonsense

The secretary general of North Atlantic alliance Jens Stoltenberg quickly refuted today's propaganda statement of the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin that the Ukrainian army, allegedly, is "a NATO legion".

The secretary general of Alliance told about it at a briefing in Brussels after a meeting at ambassador level the commissions of NATO Ukraine in connection with events in Mariupol.

"The application Russian President Vladimir Putin] that in Ukraine is a legion of NATO is a lie. There is no NATO legion. The only not Ukrainian armed forces in Ukraine - Russian. And the problem in it is that at Ukraine there are Russian armed forces and the Russian Federation supports separatists the equipment", - the correspondent reports Stoltenberg's words.

According to him, in NATO fix "significant increase" in a stream of the weapon to separatists from Russia, and it is about the different equipment, including heavy arms. Also the secretary general of Alliance confirmed a position of the organization that the solution of the conflict in the east of Ukraine lies first of all in the political square.

"NATO is part of the international efforts on support of Ukraine and all of us agree that there is no military solution of this crisis. Therefore all of us unite and we declare that it is necessary to make everything to hold peace talks on the basis of the Minsk agreements", - the official told, having assured that NATO renders both the practical, and political help to Ukraine - in defensive reform and modernization of Armed forces.

Stoltenberg noted that today's meeting of the commission - "very strong signal of political support of Ukraine" by Alliance member countries.

"We created trust funds for the help in reforming of VSU, and also for medical care to wounded soldiers", - he added.

Source: http://news.liga.net/