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Ilya Rogachev, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the issues of new challenges and threats, at preliminary hearings on the lawsuit of Ukraine in the International Court of the UN in The Hague, said that militants in the Donbass found weapons in the regional mines. It is reported by "European Pravda".

“The main source of weapons that ended up among the rebels (militants. - Ed.) Is the reserves of Soviet times that were in Ukraine,” the official said. “Most of these reserves were left in the mines of Donbass and ended up among the rebels.”

“In addition, most was left by a runaway by the Ukrainian army,” Rogachev added.

At the same time, the official did not comment on the evidence of Kyiv about the use by militants of the latest weapons, which is in service only in the Russian army.

According to European Pravda, the largest warehouse of old Soviet weapons in the Donbass is in the military unit in Bakhmut (before decommunization - Artemovsk). In 2014, the terrorists tried to capture part for a long time, but they received a rebuff and did not get into the territory.

A lawsuit with the charge of Russia of terrorism and national discrimination , Ukraine filed a lawsuit of the UN on January 16 . The violation of the Moscow International Convention on the fight against the financing of terrorism, then said in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, consists in providing "weapons and other types of assistance" to the militants of the DPR and the LPR. “To the most tragic terrorist attacks of Russian puppets,” the department noted, “should include a blow to the MALAYSIA AIRLINES flight Aircraft, the shelling of residential areas of Mariupol and Kramatorsk, the destruction of a civil passenger bus near Volnovhai and a deadly explosion during a peaceful assembly in Kharkov.”

Violation of the Convention on the liquidation of all forms of racial discrimination, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said, consists in a campaign against non -Russian communities in the annexed Crimea, in particular against communities of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars. "Starting with the illegal" referendum "carried out in an atmosphere of intimidation, the Russian occupation power pursues a policy of cultural destruction of these communities," Kyiv noted. “The ban on the activities of the Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the waves of disappearance, murders, arbitrariness, detentions, attempts to stop the broadcasting of the media, as well as the restriction on the teaching of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages” were mentioned.

Preliminary hearings on a lawsuit opened on Monday . They solve the issue of applying interim measures to prevent further violations of human rights in Moscow.

As the Crimea. Realities specified , Ukraine insists that the court obliges Russia to immediately stop the material and other support of the militants conducting terror against the civilian population and put pressure on terrorists to terminate such shares. In addition, Kyiv asks that Moscow be entrusted with discrimination in the Crimea, in particular to cancel the ban on the Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people and to investigate the disappearance of the Crimean Tatars.

On Monday, the head of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Ombudsman, on Monday, reported on his FB page that a statement on the persecution of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians on the annexed peninsula, prepared by Simpheropol lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, was read out on the hearing on March 6. The announcement of the application was accompanied by a demonstration of photos taken during operations of Russian security forces in Crimea.

According to the assumption of the press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Maryana Betsu, the decision on the issue of interim measures will take one or two months. At the same time, there is a risk that Russia will refuse to fulfill the court decision, despite the fact that it is mandatory. In this case, Kyiv will have to contact the UN with a request to control compliance with the decision.

Hearing on the merits of the lawsuit can drag on for several years.