Russia appears to invade Ukraine, opening 2nd front

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/28/238054/russia-appears-to-invade-ukraine.html

Russia appears to invade Ukraine, opening 2nd front
By Matthew Schofield
McClatchy Foreign Staff
August 28, 2014

BERLIN — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Thursday of invading his nation, at about the same time that a separatist rebel leader admitted his forces are made up of Russian fighters, including active and retired Russian troops.

This accusation of invasion involved events in what’s now being called a second front in the fight in Ukraine’s southern territory, Donetsk. Ukrainian troops guarding what had in recent weeks been a calm piece of the nations’ shared border near the Black Sea came under rocket fire from Russia, then faced “attack by two columns, including tanks,” a top military spokesman said Thursday in Kiev.

While it was hardly the first evidence this year of a hostile Russian military presence in Ukraine, it was seen as something of a tipping point. Poroshenko canceled a scheduled “working trip” to Turkey, noting, “The president must stay in Kiev today.”

He went on to add that his actions were necessary “because of an introduction of Russian troops into Ukraine.”

[Duckhunter935]

1. Its always nice to get help from

soldiers on vacation bring their tanks, artillery, MLRS systems, anti aircraft systems with them.

Russia has been doing a slow invasion for quite some time. I think the next round will come from Crimea that was invaded first and now is under Russian control.