President Vladimir Putin ordered to withdraw from the border with Ukraine almost 18 thousand military – Radio Echo of Moscow

President Vladimir Putin ordered to withdraw from the border with Ukraine almost 18 thousand military – Radio Echo of Moscow

They were, according to the press service of the head of state on the teachings in the Rostov region.

The military returned to their places of permanent deployment. The assignment was president and supreme commander of the operational meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council gave Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Landfills in the Rostov region teaching this summer were 17 thousand 600 people, according to the presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov. It is noteworthy that the order to withdraw troops from the region, which borders the Donetsk and Lugansk regions where fighting continues, sounded when the parties to the conflict according to media reports have signed an agreement to establish a line of demarcation between Ukraine and the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk. However, the head of the press center of the special operation Vladislav Seleznev called in an interview with Ukrainian Pravda information premature and untrue. During the exercise, in the Rostov region in Kiev declared the presence of the Russian military in the Donbass, who allegedly participated in the fighting in the south-east of Ukraine. Several media outlets reported on the death of Russian paratroopers. Moscow denied it and claimed that in the Donbass fighting volunteers. At the same time recognized the existence of separatist leaders in the region, Russian military personnel.

This is not the first exercises in recent months in the Rostov region. In May, the President ordered the troops to return to their places of permanent deployment of the region, as well as Belgorod and Bryansk regions.