UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT: RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE ADVANCING INTO UKRAINE
Michael B Kelley and Brett LoGiurato
BusinessInsider.com
Aug. 28, 2014
Russian troops fighting on the side of separatists in Ukraine are advancing in the southeast region of the country, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday.
“I have made a decision to cancel my working visit to the Republic of Turkey due to sharp aggravation of the situation in Donetsk region, particularly in Amvrosiivka and Starobeshevo, as Russian troops were brought into Ukraine,” Poroshenko said in a statement.
“Russia, Ukraine now at war,” tweeted geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group, adding that “Ukraine economy will collapse if direct fighting [with] Russia persists; support from the West isn’t there. Poroshenko now needs a ceasefire.”
The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting Thursday afternoon in New York on the escalation in Ukraine at the request of Lithaunia, a NATO state which shares a border with Russia.
“There’s an invasion of Russian troops into the east of Ukraine,” Dainus Baublys, the minister counselor for Lithaunai’s UN mission, told Business Insider. “Up to 1,000 Russian troops invaded yesterday … they continue pounding Ukrainian forces across the border with their artillery and they are deploying more artillery pieces along the border.”
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