![]() ![]() ![]() Kolosky is about 7 km (4 miles) from Dzerkalniy, a settlement where Ukrainian officials said they had detained the 10 Russian troops featured in the video footage. ambassador to Ukraine, said in a Twitter post: “The new columns of Russian tanks and armour crossing into Ukraine indicates a Russian-directed counter-offensive may be underway.” If it turns out that Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine, that could deepen yet further the crisis, which is the focus of talks on Tuesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart in Minsk. Ukraine accuses Russia of sending weapons and soldiers to fight alongside pro-Moscow rebels in the country’s east, a charge the Kremlin has denied throughout the five-month conflict. The men had white arm bands, the same identifying mark that was worn by 10 men captured a few kilometres (miles) away by Ukrainian forces and who, in video released on Tuesday, said they were Russian paratroopers. While they wore no insignia, their appearance or behaviour bore striking similarities to a group of Russian troops detained in Ukraine in the past few days, and to Russian forces which occupied Crimea earlier this year, the witnesses said. Two witnesses told Reuters on Tuesday that the dozens of men, who arrived at the weekend and set up a road block, were not local and had military ration packs marked with Russian writing. ![]() MOSCOW (Reuters) - Unidentified, heavily-armed strangers with Russian accents have appeared in an eastern Ukrainian village, arousing residents’ suspicions despite Moscow’s denials that its troops have deliberately infiltrated the frontier. ![]()
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