Moscow has denied Ukrainian media reports regarding Russian representatives' activities in Ukraine.
“Some reports assert, for instance, that a Russian diplomat from
among those, who were recently asked to leave the country, provided
pro-Russian organizations with “around $100,000 each month for bribing
influential persons and recruiting informers,” the Russian Foreign
Ministry said in a commentary on Tuesday.
“Any observer, assessing objectively such a special way of providing
a knowingly ‘absurd’ material, understands that it is an attempt,
accurately calculated in time, aimed to provoke stronger tensions in
Russian-Ukrainian relations,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Such provocations suit the same forces that staged the recent
diplomatic scandal between Moscow and Kyiv, the Russian Foreign
Ministry said.
“We deem such political games to be an unseemly and futile endeavor.
We believe in Ukrainian citizens’ commonsense. It is our common task to
normalize and strengthen good-neighborly Russian-Ukrainian relations,”
it said.
Ukrainian mass media earlier claimed, citing Ukrainian special
services, that Russian representatives in Ukraine engaged in subversive
activities.
