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Defence & Security News - Ukraine | |||
Friday, August 15, 2014 11:25 AM | |||
Dozen of Russian armoured vehicles and 40,000 troops near the border with Ukraine. | |||
Dozens of heavy Russian military vehicles massed on Friday, August 15, 2014, near the border with Ukraine, while Ukrainian border guards crossed the frontier to inspect a huge Russian aid convoy. The convoy is still awaiting permission to take its cargo to cities held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine which have been wracked by violence. | |||
Ukraine crisis map situation. | |||
Russia says it is carrying 2,000 tonnes of water, baby food and other aid for people in east Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists are fighting government forces. Kiev and some Western officials have said they believe the convoy could be a cover for a Russian military incursion. On Thursday, the convoy of some 280 trucks stopped in open fields near the Russian town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, about 20 km (12 miles) from the border with Ukraine. It was still stationed there on Friday morning and a Reuters reporter at the scene saw a dozen armored personnel carriers (APCs) on the move not far from the convoy. | |||