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Ukraine Defense Ministry rejects media reports on state of emergency

Military detachments remain in their permanent deployment positions, fulfilling their direct duties, the ministry reported

KIEV, January 23. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine's Defense Ministry denied media reports on Thursday that military forces were on alert to enter the country’s capital, Kiev, as the authorities planned a state of emergency.

“Media reports on the preparation of military forces for the introduction of a state of emergency are untrue,” Col. Alexander Motuzyanik, an acting head of the ministry’s press service, said.