Ukraine said it warded off a Russian attempt to send troops across the border under the guise of a humanitarian mission, fuelling Western fears that Moscow is planning to invade.
“A huge convoy moved towards the Ukrainian border, accompanied by Russian troops and military hardware,” Valeriy Chaliy, deputy head of President Petro Poroshenko’s office said late Friday in a television interview.
“Supposedly in consultation with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine, the humanitarian convoy with ‘peacekeepers’ was meant to enter apparently in order to provoke a full-scale conflict,” he added.
Chaliy said the move was averted through diplomatic channels, without …read more
Source: The Jakarta Globe
