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Before the talks between the presidents of Ukraine and France, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Taran informed in detail Ambassador of France to Ukraine Etienne de Poncins about a significant aggravation of the situation in the area the Joint Forces Operation (JFO), paying special attention to the significant increase in the recent military presence of the Russian Federation along the border with Ukraine and in the occupied Crimea.
“We cannot afford to underestimate the situation and are fully aware that Russia is capable of planning for Ukraine a repetition of the Georgian scenario of 2008. For this, provocations can be used to accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine of attacking civilians, especially since there are already more than 400,000 people who were issued Russian passports in the occupied territories,” the press service of the Defense Ministry quoted Taran as saying on April 13.