Ukraine has informed the United Nations General Assembly that militants in Donbas have 700 tanks, 1,200 armoured vehicles, 1,000 artillery systems and 300 multiple launch rocket systems.
The Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN said this at a meeting of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"Russia also uses its state-controlled mass-media for the disinformation of its own population creating a fertile ground for the spread of terrorist propaganda that encourages its citizens to join the terrorist ranks in Donbas. And Russia continues sending weapons and foreign terrorist fighters to Ukraine through the uncontrolled part of the Ukrainian-Russian state border," it said.
It is evident that having been directly involved in all these terrorist activities, the Russian Federation has discredited itself as a predictable and reliable international player because of its efforts to export terrorism to Ukraine, the Mission said.
Russia is violating commitments undertaken in accordance with a set of legally binding international instruments on prevention and combating international terrorism, including the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, as well as the relevant UNSC resolutions.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Ukraine has held five rounds of pre-trial negotiations with Russia before commencement of the action before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) upon financing of terrorism in Donbas by Russia, and also two rounds of negotiations before commencement of the action upon discrimination of Crimean Tatars' rights in the Russia-occupied Crimea.
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