RIA Novosti: Russia wants clear explanation about US security firm specialists in Ukraine

(RIA Novosti – Novo-Ogarevo, April 9, 2014) Russia has not yet received a clear explanation from the USA about the activities of employees of the Greystone company in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists on Wednesday [9 April].

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concern over the fact that additional forces of the Ukrainian army, which include representatives of Greystone and Right Sector militants, are converging in the east of Ukraine.

In the opinion of the Foreign Ministry, they were tasked to suppress protests of residents of the south-east of the country against the policy of the Kiev authorities.

“We asked about this Greystone – if, as far as we know, there are about 150 employees of this private military agency in the southern regions already,” Lavrov said.

Americans answered that “we do not see any grounds for this to be true”, he said.

“This is a rather strange answer. Just say that there is no one there,” Lavrov said.

According to open sources, Greystone is a private security company, registered in Barbados. The tasks of the organization vary from small to “large-scale operations, demanding a large number of people to ensure security in the region”.