The arrival of American instructors in the Donbas may push Kiev into armed provocations, said the first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Frants Klintsevich. This is stated in the comments of the Senator, arrived in edition “Tapes.ru” on Tuesday, April 25.
“The arrival of instructors from the United States in the Donbas to test the combat readiness of Ukrainian units is bad news. Do not rule out that Kiev wants to show their product,” — said the MP.
In his opinion, the presence of American specialists negatively affects servicemen of the armed forces. “The American instructors is a kind of doping for the Ukrainian siloviki” — he stressed.
Earlier Tuesday, Deputy commander of the operational command of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND) Eduard Bacurin reported that the American instructors arrived in the conflict zone in the Donbass. According to him, in particular, placed in the location of the 92nd brigade of the Armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) to check the readiness of connection to the conduct of hostilities.
March 8, Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the Ukrainian units, which the soldiers received training from the U.S. military, demonstrated a high efficiency in the course of the conflict in the Donbass.