Ukraine claims 1000 Russia troops and tanks have invaded

Russian T-90A Tank (Vitaly Kuzmin)

The Kiev government in Ukraine said that Russia has invaded east Ukraine:

August 28, 2014

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) — A top Ukrainian army officer said a “full-scale invasion” of his country was under way Thursday, as a U.S. official said up to 1,000 Russian troops had crossed Ukraine’s southern border to fight alongside pro-Russian rebels.

U.S. officials said Russian troops were directly involved in the latest fighting, despite Moscow’s denials.

Rebels backed by Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers fought Ukrainian forces on two fronts Thursday: southeast of rebel-held Donetsk, and along the nation’s southern coast in the town of Novoazovsk, about 12 miles (20 km) from the Russian border, according to Mykhailo Lysenko, the deputy commander of the Ukrainian Donbas battalion.

“This is a full-scale invasion,” Lysenko said, referring to the fighting in the south.

Intelligence now indicates that up to 1,000 Russian troops have moved into southern Ukraine with heavy weapons and are fighting there, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/28/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/

Russia has denied it from an official perspective:

August 28, 2014

MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti) – The claims concerning Russian troops entering Ukraine are groundless, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, said Thursday.

“Lies have become habitual for the so-called Ukrainian authorities, so [Ukrainian President] Poroshenko is not going to surprise anyone in Russia, or in the West. I can only say that there are no grounds for such claims,” Slutsky told RIA Novosti.

According to the official, Poroshenko’s cancelation of his scheduled visit to Turkey under the pretext of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine is nothing but a publicity stunt.

“I think that very soon the international community will make an objective assessment of the Kiev junta’s actions, and many countries, members of the European Council, the representatives of which we are constantly in touch with, are beginning to realize that Kiev is leaking lies,” Slutsky said. http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140828/192425605/Kievs-Claims-About-Russian-Troops-in-Ukraine-Groundless–Russian.html

US President Obama made some comments about all of this:

August 28, 2104

President Obama said Thursday that the world now has evidence that Russia has been funding and arming separatists in Ukraine, but stopped short of labeling Russia’s actions an “invasion,” as Ukrainian officials claim.

“The violence is encouraged by Russia,” Obama told reporters Thursday. “New images of Russian forces inside Ukraine make that plain for the world to see.”

The remarks came just hours after Ukrainian officials reported that Russian tanks and military vehicles had fired missiles at a border post in southeastern Ukraine and then crossed into the country as Ukrainian border guards scattered.

The missiles were fired from Russia in the morning, a spokesman for the Ukrainian security council said, and followed in the early afternoon by vehicles entering Ukraine from Veselo-Voznesenka, just across the border from Novoazovsk. http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-obama-ukraine-20140828-story.html

There certainly is Russian influence:

August 28, 2014

Ukraine argues that its recent military reverses have been caused by the direct intervention of Russian troops. President Petro Poroshenko canceled a planned visit to Turkey on Thursday to deal with the crisis. Moscow and rebel leaders deny that Russian soldiers or hardware are directly involved in the conflict.

But the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, said Thursday that up to 4,000 Russian “volunteers” have been fighting alongside the insurgents. “We have never concealed that many Russians are fighting in our ranks without aid of which we would be in a very difficult situation,” the official ITAR-Tass agency quoted him as saying.

Mr. Zakharchenko added that Russian volunteers “unfortunately sustained some casualties” – a comment that will fuel a dawning controversy in Russia.

Opinion polls continue to show robust public support among Russians for the east Ukrainian rebels, with 55 percent saying in August that they support the movement of Russian volunteer fighters into Ukraine to back up the insurgents, according to Alexei Grazhdankin, deputy director of the independent Levada Center in Moscow.

But the number of Russians who would support sending Russian troops to fight in Ukraine has fallen from 28 percent in April, to 16 percent this month.

News that Russian troops may already be fighting – and dying – in Ukraine is starting to appear in the Russian media. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0828/As-Ukraine-fighting-surges-so-too-do-Russian-Ukrainian-doubts-about-the-war

The situation in Ukraine remains tense. Russia wants Ukraine. Much of Ukraine wants to be part of the European Union.

The European Union wants Ukraine, and the USA wants Ukraine to be part of the European Union.

The Bible tells of the rise of a European power (see Europa, the Beast, and Revelation) and a Eurasian power (see The Eurasian Union, the Kings of the East, and Bible Prophecy). Ukraine is somewhat in the middle and as I wrote late last year, some type of split could come to Ukraine. With the Russian annexation of Crimea this past Spring, that could be the first of more acquisitions, though it could take time for that to happen. Although with serious military action, that could be sped up dramatically.

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