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Putin Punks West (Again): Russian Troops Enter Ukraine, Guardian Reports

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As Russia's 300-strong 'humanitarian' convoy of white trucks slithered towards the Ukraine border, it appears, according to The Guardian, that, in spite of the market's exuberance at this morning's comments of "avoiding conflict," Vladimir Putin sent a real 'green' military Russian convoy across the Ukraine border late Thursday evening.

 

 

As The Guardian reports,

While the white trucks came to a halt well short of Ukraine's border, a different Russian convoy did cross into Ukrainian territory late on Thursday evening.

 

The Guardian saw a column of 23 armoured personnel carriers, supported by fuel trucks and other logistics vehicles with official Russian military plates, travelling towards the border near the Russian town of Donetsk.

 


 

After pausing by the side of the road until nightfall, the convoy crossed into Ukrainian territory, using a rough dirt track and clearly crossing through a gap in a barbed wire fence that demarcates the border. Armed men were visible in the gloom by the border fence as the column moved into Ukraine.

 

Kiev has lost control of its side of the border in this area.

 

The trucks are unlikely to represent a full-scale official Russian invasion, and it was unclear how far they planned to travel inside Ukrainian territory and how long they would stay. But it was incontrovertible evidence of what Ukraine has long claimed – that Russian troops are active inside its borders.

 

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The armoured column seen by the Guardian appeared to be further evidence of Russia's incursions, which the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.

 

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As The Telegraph confirms,

A column of armoured vehicles and military trucks crossed the border from Russia into Ukraine on Thursday night, in the first confirmed sighting of such an incident by Western journalists.

 

The Telegraph witnessed a column of vehicles including both armoured personal carriers and soft-skinned lorries crossing into Ukraine at an obscure border crossing near the Russian town of Donetsk shortly before 10pm local time.

 

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We assume this means Stocks will give back all their gains? lol...

 

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Of course, we suspect if one were to ask Putin, this is merely an entry into an independent sovereign republic... not Ukraine per se... although we are sure he knows full well how the West will interpret this action.

 

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Fri, 08/15/2014 - 05:49 | 5096422 Jano
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No youtube? How should I belive it, if it isn't on youtube?

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 06:01 | 5096435 PutinReloaded
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I hope it is true, but if the only sources are two tabloids of the most anti-russian country in the world, well, allow me to see it as NATO propaganda.

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 06:20 | 5096446 vyeung
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I'm tired of this BS. Germany, pls pack your EU bags and shift to the EAST. Save us all the headache of this scenario playing out.

THey always picture a baron land that you have no idea whether the news is fact or fiction. Who the fark knows where that picture is in Russia, Ukraine or South Africa.

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 06:44 | 5096457 dreadnaught
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Its about time Putin started kicking some USA/IMF/Nazi ass in the Ukraine! :)

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 07:00 | 5096474 Infinite QE
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Precisely. WAY overdue. But wake me when he's got tanks rolling into Tel Aviv to snag the zioqueer oligarchs behind this whole mess.

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 06:44 | 5096462 porter_wins
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ffs! That small military convoy was clearly sent to secure the safe passage for aid convoy, as Kiev demanded, it's up to Russia to secure it's path. No wonder it was first sighting of russian forces crossing borders :D Russia knows that right secotr is always ready to cause trouble...

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 11:56 | 5096564 fel.temp.reparatio
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A Russian boy-scout with a BB gun at the border probably would have triggered a similar MSM response... just saying.

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 07:04 | 5096479 atthelake
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It, probably, won't come to nuclear war but, I know, some are worried,

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 07:21 | 5096499 compound interest
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In his speeches, Putin insists calling this area (Eastern Ukraine, region of Donetsk / Luhansk, etc.) "Novo-Rossiya" ( = New Russia). He wouldn't admit his troops crossed the Ukrainian border, because that is not that for him.

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 07:54 | 5096567 Jano
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Well I am Slav, from Slovakia, and aged 57, tehrefor I learnd in the school about the history of that territory. The territory in question was called Novorossia as it was established in the 8-9-th century. If V.Putin calls it today by the same name, why not?

Ukrainians didn't know, that they are unkrainians until 1914. Until then they called themselves mala rossia (small Russia).....

But to be ukrainian nazi is today very modern......and to call that ancient slavic territory Ukraine is for me a joke.

Sat, 08/16/2014 - 03:10 | 5101341 Gavrikon
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'"humanitarian"'?  "slithered"

Which piece of shit wrote this?

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