“Reports of Ukraine’s alleged abnormal military activity in Donbas are a brazen attempt by the Russian government to fabricate a pretext for an invasion,” she tweeted.

London will continue to publicize the "disinformation campaign" by Moscow, Truss said.

Earlier, a representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that Ukrainian armed groups were shelling the outskirts of Donetsk.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov noted an increase in Kiev's provocations in the Donbass in recent days.

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that the head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, is obliged to apologize to the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Britain for the absurd statements about the "Russian invasion."