The Russian armed forces sent 50 tanks, along with a succession of artillery and military supplies to territories held by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, while the leaders of the two countries were debating a ceasefire for the region last night, a Ukrainian defence and security spokesman has said.
While Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko and Russia’s Vladimir Putin met with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Minsk, the capital of neighbouring Belarus, to discuss bringing an end to the violence in Ukraine’s east which has killed over 5,000 people since last Spring, the Russian armed forces sent reinforcements to …read more
Source: Newsweek