Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he appealed for political and financial support, President Petro Poroshenko held up a piece of a bullet-riddled bus as evidence of shelling last week by heavy artillery in “occupied” parts of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s intelligence has confirmed from independent sources that there are more than 9,000 Russian troops on its territory, including more than 500 tanks, heavy artillery and personnel carriers, Poroshenko told the crowd of political and business elites.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters she couldn’t confirm the figures but there has been an increase in separatist violence, including …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
