Ukrainians fighting each other: Kiev orders the impossible, says Lavrov

MOSCOW, August 4 (Itar-Tass) - The flight of 438 Ukrainian military personnel across the border into Russia overnight to Monday means Ukraine government orders to fight their own people are impossible, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Itar-Tass on Monday. “We have repeatedly helped Ukrainian law enforcers asking for help, asking us to receive their wounded friends," said Russia's top diplomat. "We have helped, offering medical assistance and given the possibility of return to all those who wanted it without impeding them, without keeping anyone forcibly,” the foreign minister said. “To tell the truth, those who had wished to return to Ukraine were then accused of deserting and were court-martialed,” he added. Lavrov said he expected the Ukrainian authorities "will show humanity in the long run and will realise the absolute inadmissibility of the situation when Ukrainians are waging war against each other, when they are made to fight against their own people while those who refuse are seen as traitors to their own country”. Learn more on itar-tass.com