The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov acknowledged that in eastern part of Ukraine fight representatives of many countries, Russians among them, he stated in an interview to the TV Channel "Bloomberg" while answering the question why in Donbas conflict die Russian soldiers, reports GHN.
"There are many volunteers - many of them are citizens of Russia... there were Russian citizens too who were fighting in Ukrainian battalions created and financed by Russian oligarchs. In these battalions were many citizens of Poland, Lithuania and Europeans. However, some fought on the side of the rebels. We never denied the fact that Russian volunteers fight there," stated the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
We remind that due to the information of Russian activist Elena Vasilieva who has created group in social net "The burden -200 from Ukraine to Russia", on the territory of Ukraine there died four thousand Russian militants.