Ukraine accuses Russian forces of opening new front in separatist war


  • World
  • Monday, 25 Aug 2014

An armed pro-Russian separatist flashes a victory sign as he sits in a bus after a rally in Donetsk August 24, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

KIEV (Reuters) - The Ukrainian military said on Monday a group of Russian forces, in the guise of separatist rebels, had crossed into south-east Ukraine with ten tanks and two armoured infantry vehicles, aiming to open a new front in the separatist war.

Earlier, a separate military statement said border guards had halted the armoured column outside Novoazovsk, Ukraine's most south-easterly point on the Azov Sea, and local residents, reached by phone, spoke of seeing tanks and other armoured vehicles moving near the town.

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