Ukraine Says Russian Troops Join Separatists in New Assaults [View all]
Source: Bloomberg News
Rebels and Russian troops in Ukraine’s east are carrying out new offensives, the government in Kiev said, a day after it accused Russia of sending about 800 soldiers across its border.
With foreign ministers preparing for peace talks in Berlin on Wednesday, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council accused Russia of “executing terrorist acts” on its territory following a blast in the eastern city of Kharkiv that wounded 13 people. Government reports that two Russian battalions crossed the border on Monday are “hallucinations” and “absolute nonsense,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in an e-mailed statement.
“Militants and Russian regular military units are trying to carry out local offensives,” Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday. “The enemy is carrying out an active regrouping and bolstering its forces near the Donetsk airport and in the Luhansk region.”
The fighting between the government and rebels has intensified since a push to restart peace talks collapsed last week. Scores of Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and wounded in the battle for the Donetsk airport, and both sides accuse each other of reinforcing their positions in breach of a Sept. 5 truce signed in Minsk, Belarus.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-19/ukraine-says-russian-troops-cross-border-near-battle-for-airport.html
Putin continues the war of invasion for "New Russia," threatening all of Europe.
For the Putin apologists who will try to pretend Russia isn't still invading and occupying Ukraine, a reminder of the time a Russian soldier in Ukraine, in an unmarked uniform, admitted he was from Russia:
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