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Source: Washington Post
By Annie Gowen and Karoun Demirjian August 28 at 4:08 AM
KIEV, Ukraine Fighting between Russian troops and the Ukrainian military worsened early Thursday, prompting fears in Ukraine that a Russian invasion of their territory has begun.
Ukrainian troops are continuing to battle combined Russian and separatist forces on a new, southern front around the border town of Novoazovsk, east of Crimea on the Sea of Azov. In addition, a military spokesman said Russian troops are increasing surveillance from northern Crimea, the autonomous Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in March.
As firefights and shelling continued all day Wednesday and into the night, there were differing reports on whether Novoazovsk, a previously quiet border town, had fallen to Russian-backed separatists. Russian troops and their allies do control villages north of there, according to military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said.
Referring to a Russian-directed counteroffensive, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday, Clearly, that is of deep concern to us, but were also concerned by the Russian governments unwillingness to tell the truth, even as its soldiers are found 30 miles inside Ukraine.
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Begun? The invasion has been going on for weeks now! (And I'm not even including Crimea.)