“Asserting that Russian soldiers and armaments had crossed into Ukraine to support the separatists, President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine canceled a trip to Turkey on Thursday, and his national security council ordered mandatory conscription for the armed forces.
“Columns of heavy artillery, huge loads of arms and regular Russian servicemen came to the territory of Ukraine from Russia through the uncontrolled border area,” Mr. Poroshenko said at the beginning of an emergency meeting of the Ukrainian Nation Security and Defense Council in Kiev.
Mercenaries, along with regular servicemen, were trying to overrun positions held by the Ukrainian military, he said, according to a statement on his official website.”* The Young Turks hosts John Iadarola (TYT University) and Michael Shure break it down.
*Read more here from NEIL MacFARQUHAR / NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/world/europe/ukraine-conflict.html
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I am not a pro-russian troll but I still have problems calling something an evidence. Footage of a modern Russian tank taken who knows where is not an evidence. Russia is probably involved but that doesnt mean that TYT shouln´t abide by the journalistic etique.