1938 flashback?
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine's military accused Russia on Friday of sending a
column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country's east to
support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.
Thursday's cross-border incursion, if confirmed, is a
significant escalation of a conflict that has killed more than 4,000
people since the separatists rose up in mid-April and would call into
question Russia's commitment to a two-month-old ceasefire deal.
The truce has looked particularly fragile this week, with
each side accusing the other of violations after separatist elections
last Sunday condemned as illegitimate by the West.
"Supplies of military equipment and enemy fighters from
the Russian Federation are continuing," military spokesman Andriy
Lysenko told a briefing in Kiev, describing a column that included 16
big artillery guns and 30 trucks carrying troops and ammunition as well
as 32 tanks.
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