Some 5,000 Russian soldiers staying in Donbas, 50,000 in Crimea

Some 5,000 Russian servicemen are staying in the occupied part of Donbas and about 50,000 in Crimea, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"If you publicly support the conduct of the elections, then what 5,000 of your military men are doing on my territory in the occupied Donbas and 50,000 of your servicemen in Crimea? It is illegal, it is the violation of international law?" the president said at the National Press Club of Japan in Tokyo on Wednesday, answering a question of a Russian journalist about the elections in Donbas.