Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Russian Troops Cross Ukraine Border To Open New Front


As the world remains distracted by the atrocities being commuted by ISIS and at home many eyes remain focused on racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Vladimir Putin continues to follow Adolph Hitler's model of how a nation invades another sovereign nation under the guise of "humanitarian relief" and protecting those of the same ethnic background as the invaders.  Huffington Post looks at Putin's continued flouting of international law as he gambles that the West will allow him to mimic Hitler's move into Czechoslovakia in the late 1930's.  Here are highlights:
Ukraine accused Russia on Monday of sending soldiers across the border to open a new front in the separatist war that has devastated the east of the country and provoked the gravest East-West crisis since the fall of communism.

The charge, dismissed by Moscow, dealt a blow to already slim hopes of progress at talks on Tuesday towards ending the conflict between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian troops, in which more than 2,000 people have been killed.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who is due to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin in the Belarussian capital of Minsk, expressed "extraordinary concern" at the Russian move, his press service said, setting the scene for a possibly angry encounter.

The Ukrainian military said a group of Russian forces, in the guise of separatist rebels, had crossed into south-east Ukraine with 10 tanks and two armored infantry vehicles. It said border guards had halted the column outside Novoazovsk, Ukraine's most south-easterly point on the Azov Sea.

With the rebels largely encircled in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine has been pressing its advance while its Western allies have waited nervously to see if Moscow will intervene to prevent the separatists being crushed.

NATO said last week that Russian forces had been firing artillery both within Ukraine and across the border, but Moscow has consistently denied taking part in the fighting or supplying weapons to the separatists.

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