Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in his exclusive comments to MailOnline has said the Russian Federation has sent in Donbas some 500 tanks, in addition to hundreds of other heavy weapons and thousands of Russian regular troops and mercenaries.
His stark warning comes after Theresa May sparked a row with Russia by accusing the country of trying to "undermine free societies" and "sow discord in the West", MailOnline reported.
Ukraine's foreign minister said of the latest row: "Russia lies on an industrial scale."
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"We must finally wake up and unite against this Imperialist Neo-red threat posed to the free world by the current Kremlin administration," he added.
"We suffer at the hard end of Russia's hybrid war which they unleashed on the world in 2014 with the invasion Crimea and Donbas in my country," he said.
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Klimkin added that while in Crimea, "the population now live under a repressive totalitarian regime of illegal occupation".
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