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Middle Tennessee | Here is the latest from the mendacious buffoons at Reuters tonight,
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Ukraine's president said on Thursday that Russian troops had
entered his country in support of pro-Moscow rebels who cap-
tured a key coastal town, sharply escalating a separatist war
and prompting anger and alarm among Kiev's Western allies.
U.S. and British officials took strong issue with Russia's denials
it had sent combat forces intoUkraine and threatened to impose
stiffer economic sanctions on Moscow. But U.S. President
Barack Obama stopped short of calling Russia's actions an in-
vasion.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told his security chiefs
the situation was "extraordinarily difficult
... but controllable"after Russian-backed rebels seized the town of Novoazovsk in
the southeast of the former Soviet republic.
Earlier, Poroshenko said he had cancelled a visit to Turkey be-
cause of the "rapidly deteriorating
situation" in the eastern Do-
netsk region, "as Russian troops have actually been brought
into Ukraine".
Russia's Defence Ministry againdenied the presence of its sol-diers in Ukraine, using language redolent of the
Cold War.Referring to talks that Russian President Vladimir Putin held with Poroshenko just two days ago,
British Prime Minister DavidCameron said: "It is simply not enough to engage in talks in
Minsk, while Russian tanks continue to roll over the border into
Ukraine. Such activity must cease immediately."
London's ambassador to the United Nations, Mark Lyall Grant,
told a Security Council meeting: "Units of the armed forces of
the Russian federation are now directly engaged in fighting in-
side Ukraine against the armed forces of Ukraine."
"The evidence is overwhelming," he added.
Washington's U.N. envoy, Samantha Power, was also scornful
of Moscow's denials, saying: "At every step, Russia has come
before this council to say everyt
hing except the truth. It has ma-
nipulated, it has obfuscated, it has outright lied.” | |
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