Ukraine media reports about ‘seizure’ of Russian airborne combat vehicle false

MOSCOW, August 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia's Defense Ministry has denied Ukrainian media reports about the alleged seizure of an airborne combat vehicle which purportedly belonged to a Russian airborne formation, the Defense Ministry’s spokesman said on Thursday.

“Such ‘sensations’ apparently indicate serious problems which Ukrainian troops have in promoting the so-called ‘peace plan’ in south-east Ukraine according to the well-known formula saying that ‘no stone will be left unturned in the fight for peace’,” he said.

“This is quite probable that captured in 'fierce fighting', an assault rifle Kalashnikov or a grenade F-1 with detailed private diaries allegedly of Russian soldiers will be the next ‘indisputable fact’,” Konashenkov added.
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• Kyiv says two Russian armoured vehicles captured in east Ukraine...

Ukraine's military on Thursday said its forces in the east of the country had captured two Russian armoured vehicles with documents linking them to an elite army paratrooper unit.
     
"Ukrainian soldiers captured two armoured vehicles of Russia's Pskov Airbourne division in a battle near Lugansk," said security spokesman Andriy Lysenko at a briefing.
     
"One of the vehicles had a full set of documents, from driver's licenses to military documents," he said, adding that the vehicles had been abandoned by their drivers.
     
Ukrainian journalist Roman Bochkala, who is travelling with Kyiv's army in the Lugansk region, published pictures on his Facebook page claiming to show a vehicle with its plates scratched out and various items apparently found inside, including a Russian passport.
     
A social networking page of a 20-year-old Russian with the same name and date of birth shows him posing in a typical Russian paratrooper uniform. The page was last updated in July.
     
Russia swiftly rejected allegations that it had sent vehicles into Ukraine.       

"Among the daily 'exposure' of Russian presence in Ukraine this is the 1001st such piece of 'evidence'," military spokesman Igor Konashenkov told Russian state agency ITAR-TASS.
     
He said that Ukraine's army has the same equipment and the documents allegedly found inside had been stolen......................................... http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kyiv-says-two-russian-armoured-vehicles-captured-in-east-ukraine.aspx?pageID=238&nID=70731&NewsCatID=351
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