Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Laur , on Friday , denied that Moscow sent troops or security agents to areas of Eastern Ukraine , where a separatist movement demanding independence from Kiev .
" We have been accused security agents there . They not been there , " Lavrov was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency broadcast on state television .
" We do not have troops there , " he added . " We do not put our troops there , and we do not have agents there . "
" There are Russian citizens there . , But that's not surprising , because in the Maidan there are all kinds of people , " he said . He refers to the Independence Park - which became the location of mass protests to topple the government of Kiev 's pro - Russia earlier this year .
The new government in Kiev accused Moscow riots in areas of Russian-speaking population in the east , including the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk where pro - Russian protesters occupy government offices and demanded independence .
Ukrainian security service ( SBU ) said on Wednesday it had arrested a Russian spy woman aged 22 years who are suspected of carrying weapons would be sabotaging the orders of Russian security services in the city of Mykolayiv , according to AFP .
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