Arseniy Yatsenyuk has himself called the Russian claim about his alleged Chechnya war past "a clinical diagnosis of the Russian authorities."
"It's Stalinist justice mixed with Goebbels propaganda and confirmed and signed by Vladimir Putin," he commented to a journalist while on a visit to Poland.
Said-Khasan Abumuslimov, the former vice president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has called the Russian claim "a terrible lie of the Russian special forces."
"Another invention of the Russian special forces -- of course he wasn't there," Abumuslimov said. "There were people from UNA-UPSD [the Ukrainian National Assembly -- Ukrainian People's Self-Defense] party, from western Ukraine. There were a few of them, everybody knew them. And this is an absolute lie about Yatsenyuk."
According to Abumuslimov, the Russian Investigative Committee is continuing a "Stalinist policy" and discrediting people who obstruct the Russian regime.
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The trilateral contact group, consisting of Ukraine, Russia and OSCE representatives, finished its meeting in Minsk today, according to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
No further details have been provided.
The group was expected to develop an agreement concerning the withdrawal of tanks, and weapons with a caliber of less than 100 mm, from the de facto border between separatists and the Ukrainian army. The work on the document began at the beginning of August, but the sides haven’t yet managed to reach an agreement.
In Donetsk local residents are offered food packages in exchange for blood donations.
An ad, photographed in Donetsk, reads that anybody with a Donetsk registration and passport can participate in Donor Day.
“Remember that your blood will save lives of rebels and civilians,” says the ad.