Russia rebuffs US for declaring Putin`s comments on Ukraine false

Moscow: Russia on Thursday dismissed as "primitive distortion of reality", cynicism and double standards a US Department of State fact sheet that dismissed President Vladimir Putin`s comments on the crisis in Ukraine as "false claims". "It`s clear that in Washington, as before, they are unable to accept a situation developing not according to their templates," Alexander Lukashevich, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in a statement.