MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's claims about 11,000 Russian servicemen allegedly deployed in eastern Ukraine are "baseless," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
"Such baseless, vague and ungrounded accusations will never produce a positive result, to put it mildly," Peskov said when asked to comment on Poroshenko's claims.
In a Thursday interview with the German public broadcaster ZDF, the Ukrainian leader once again accused Russia of deploying thousands of troops to war-hit southeastern Ukraine.
Peskov said Russia had multiple times denied Kiev's allegations about its involvement in the crisis. Similar accusations have been raised against Moscow by US and NATO officials who cited evidence of Russia's role in the hostilities between Kiev forces and eastern Ukraine's independence supporters. These reports have not been confirmed independently.
