Basurin told when the escalation of the situation in Donbass began

He answered the question when Ukraine began to pull heavy equipment to the line of contact with Donbass

“Since the beginning of March, we talked about this at all kinds of platforms - and at the so-called Minsk negotiating platform, we talked about it and sent the document to the OSCE mission representative that there is a concentration of manpower and equipment in large quantities,” Basurin said.

According to him, then the OSCE mission began to write about this in its reports.

Basurin also said that Kiev's pulling together of forces took place against the backdrop of the exercises of Ukraine and NATO representatives.

“And the exercises that are conducted in large numbers with NATO representatives on the territory of Ukraine, or in Romania, Poland, the Baltic states.

Everything is tied into one knot.

And we remained hostages of this situation, ”Basurin said.

On April 11, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that in the Donbass there is a situation of non-fulfillment of the Minsk agreements and the intensification of provocative actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.