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In reply to the discussion: Russian and Ukraine troops battle in south, prompting fears that invasion has begun [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)This is Reuters as of five minutes ago:
Ukraine's president said on Thursday that Russian troops had entered his country in support of pro-Moscow rebels who captured 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 into Ukraine and threatened to impose stiffer economic sanctions on Moscow. But U.S. President Barack Obama stopped short of calling Russia's actions an invasion.
Earlier, Poroshenko said he had canceled a visit to Turkey because of the "rapidly deteriorating situation" in the eastern Donetsk region, "as Russian troops have actually been brought into Ukraine".
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 inside Ukraine against the armed forces of Ukraine."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/28/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN0GS10C20140828
That a particular magic word was or was not used in a politician's comment does not alter the fact that Russian troops are engaged in combat in Ukraine with elements of Ukraine's armed forces.