KYIV, Dec 3 rebuff by all necessary means, said the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov. «I will say this: we do not violate the Minsk agreements, we do not attack in the zone of the operation of the joint forces. we warn through the JCCC regime, through the OSCE SMM that they stop violating the Minsk agreements and the silence regime. If this mechanism does not work, the armed forces, using the article of the UN Charter «the right to self-defense», will use all the necessary forces and means, » Reznikov said, answering the deputy's question whether Javelins were used in Donbass. Earlier, the head of the main intelligence department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, told Military Times that For the first time, the Ukrainian military forces used the American Javelin anti-tank missile system during the hostilities in the Donbass. Later, this information was confirmed by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the faction of the pro-presidential party «Servant of the People», the head of the subcommittee on the defense industry and technical modernization of the parliamentary committee on national security Igor Kopytin. At the same time, the headquarters of the operation of the joint forces of Ukraine denies information about the use of Javelin complexes in Donbass.
