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August 16th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Russia has assured the United States that there are no military personnel on its humanitarian relief convoy for Ukraine.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu told his US counterpart Chuck Hagel on Friday that the aid convoy of at least 280 vehicles is not being used as a pretext to intervene in Ukraine.
“Minister Shoygu ‘guaranteed’ that there were no Russian military personnel involved in the humanitarian convoy, nor was the convoy to be used as a pretext to further intervene in Ukraine,” the Pentagon said.
“Minister Shoygu assured Secretary Hagel that Russia was meeting Ukraine’s conditions,” it added.
The convoy of at least 280 vehicles carrying humanitarian aid has been parked at a military depot in southern Russia amid disagreement between Moscow and Kiev over how and where it would cross into Ukraine.
Russia says it is carrying 2,000 tons of water, baby food and other aid for people in east Ukraine, where pro-Russians are engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian government troops. Moscow insists it has coordinated the dispatch of the goods with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
However, the Kiev government and some Western officials have said the humanitarian aid convoy could be a cover for a Russian military incursion, a claim Moscow has described as “absurd.”
Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Zakharchenko on Thursday accused Ukraine of deliberately stalling Russian humanitarian aid.
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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/16/375502/russia-assures-us-on-ukraine-aid-convoy/
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