Russian motorized infantry battalion withdraw from the area near the eastern border of Ukraine , said the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman as quoted by the state news agency on Monday .
They did not explain whether the Russians from other battalion near the boundary will also be withdrawn , according to Reuters .
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in talks on Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared progress in resolving the crisis over Ukraine depends on the withdrawal of troops from the border .
Ukrainian Defense Ministry on Monday said it saw a gradual withdrawal of Russian troops from the border , which may be related to the latest Washington to urge diplomatic solution to the worst crisis since the East - West Cold War .
" In recent days , Russian troops gradually withdraw from the border , " said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskiy in a telephone interview .
Dmytrashkivskiy said it could not ascertain the number of soldiers in the withdrawal or are still in the Russian border with the former Soviet satellite .
Officials of the United States and the European Union on the weekend predicted increase in the number of Russian soldiers abruptly along the eastern border of Ukraine reached 30 thousand to 40 thousand troops .
Observers in Military and Political Studies Center Dmytro Tymchuk Kiev on Monday said the source told him that Russia only has 10 thousand remaining soldiers near the border on Monday morning .
Ukrainian Defense Ministry officials have not officially declared Kiev obtain information about the withdrawal by Moscow and not knowing the reason for the removal of troops .
" It can be associated with regular rotation by the army , " said
Dmytrashkivskiy , " Or maybe associated with the Russian -American negotiations . "
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris on Sunday for talks , which did not produce a breakthrough over the crisis , but ended with the agreement of both parties to continue negotiations again soon .
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday visited the Crimea as the first Russian leader to travel to the Black Sea region after the escape from the Ukraine .
" I am in Simferopol . On this day , the government will discuss the development of the Crimea , " Medvedev said on Twitter .
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