KIEV, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian Defense Ministry rejected statements by some western politicians that planes of the CIA landed at a Ukrainian air base on Wednesday.

    "Ukraine's air bases have never received planes of the CIA," Andriy Lysenko, head of the press service of the Defense Ministry, told reporters in Kiev.

    "Statements on the matter are absolutely ungrounded, incompetent and look simply absurd," he said.

    Reports surfaced in Western media on Wednesday that Giovanni Claudio Fava, the European MP investigating the secret operations of the CIA in Europe, said that CIA aircraft landed at an air base in Ukraine.