Russian troops and tanks enter Ukraine
Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/ODNsubs General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Commander Europe, says the alliance had seen Russian troops and tanks entering Ukraine in the past few days. Report.
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Ukraine News Nov 12, 2014
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UN Emergency Meeting on Ukraine: UN Security Council expresses concern over Russian troop buildup
The United Nation #39;s Security Council held an emergency meeting on the crisis in Ukraine as reports of a Russian troop buildup on Ukraine #39;s territory mount. It was the 26th time the security...
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Pro-Russian militants stand guard outside an official office in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on November 13, 2014, as shelling continues in the suburban area of the city near the destroyed airport. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine warned Thursday that the security situation is steadily worsening in the country's rebel-held east as separatist fighters move closer to government forces. One official said he feared an attack soon by Russian forces.
A cease-fire agreed upon in September between the pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine's government in Kiev has been violated daily, especially around areas coveted by both sides like the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk.
National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said the Russian army is massing troops, including air defense units, near the border. Ukraine for months has accused Russia of directly supplying the separatist forces.
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Fighting escalates as Ukraine and NATO claim Russians troops are in eastern Ukriane
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich denied the Ukrainian charge.
"There have been and are no military movements across the border or, all the more, any presence of our troops in the southeast of Ukraine," he said Thursday in Moscow.
Ukraine's warnings of possible renewed hostilities follow multiple recent observations of large military convoys on the move around the country's eastern separatist-controlled areas. Trucks transporting troops, ammunition, fuel and large-caliber artillery systems have been seen traveling primarily in the direction of Donetsk, the main rebel-held city.
Ukraine and NATO have said they believe the equipment has been delivered from Russia, although they have yet to provide conclusive evidence for that.
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Ukraine official: Likelihood of imminent Russian attack "high"
Russian and Ukrainian officials traded accusations Thursday about gearing up for a resumption of full-fledged war in eastern Ukraine as European monitors reported a steady rise in what appeared to be uniformed fighters crossing in from Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich denied that Moscow has sent any troops or armaments across Ukraine's border to reinforce pro-Russia separatists who have seized the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and severed most ties to the rest of Ukraine.
"Neither are there any Russian soldiers in Ukraine, nor have any crossed the border," said Lukashevich, repeating Moscow's position that a return to intense fighting with Ukrainian government troops would be "a catastrophe."
Russian officials have denied throughout the 7-month-old conflict that they have any role in the fighting that has taken more than 4,000 lives since April.
At a Vienna meeting Thursday of diplomats from the 57 member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Russian envoy Andrei Kelin accused the Kiev government of moving tanks and troops to the separatist-held territory in preparation for renewed fighting.
"We have information about seven cases when army vehicles were pulled to Donbass," Kelin told the OSCE gathering, referring to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that span the western side of the Don River basin. He said the movements involved tanks, anti-aircraft artillery, multiple-rocket launchers and short-range ballistic missiles, according to a Tass news agency dispatch from the meeting.
OSCE Secretary-General Lamberto Zannier told European Parliament members at a gathering in Brussels that the alliance monitoring mission had observed the most intense shelling in the area east of Mariupol, a vital Ukrainian government-controlled port on the Sea of Azov that is a main gateway to the Black and Mediterranean seas.
Russian armored columns entered southeastern Ukraine along the Sea of Azov in August, seizing towns leading up to Mariupol and engaging Ukrainian government forces who had surrounded the separatists and threatened to drive them from their Donetsk stronghold. A Sept. 5 cease-fire brokered by the OSCE tentatively froze the assault on Mariupol, but it has intensified this week, the European monitors have reported.
In Kiev, Interior Ministry advisor Zorian Shkiriak told journalists that Ukrainian security and defense forces had crafted a coordinated plan for countering what has been reported in local media as an imminent attack by the Russian-backed separatists.
"The Interior Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the SBU [State Security Service] have worked out a systemic model of cooperation in combating Russian aggression," Shkiriak said, according to the Ukrinform news agency.
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Ukraine, separatists revving for resumption of full-fledged war