An interview Wednesday with a Russian army major, arrested in Ukraine on charges of terrorism, fueled allegations that Russian soldiers are serving alongside separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities arrested Major Vladimir Starkov on July 25 at the Beryozovo checkpoint. Starkov was inside of a Russian KamAZ truck filled with Russian-made weapons. The truck was on its way from Donetsk to Yasne, a town controlled by separatists.
According to EuroNews, Starkov said that he was transferred to the Rostov oblast of Russia, a region on the Russian-Ukrainian border, in 2014. That March, he was told that he would serve in Ukraine.
Starkov said …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
