Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said yesterday that Ukrainian forces had attacked and destroyed a column of tanks and other Russian military vehicles on Ukrainian territory, a step that, if confirmed, would represent a significant escalation of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, the Washington Post website reports today (August 16, 2014).
Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron that "the majority" of a column of Russian military vehicles "had been destroyed by the Ukrainian artillery at night," his office said in a statement. The announcement came as NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said yesterday that the defense alliance had seen an "incursion" into Ukraine the previous night.
The Kremlin denied yesterday that there had been a border incursion, and a Russian defense ministry spokesman said that no Russian vehicles had been destroyed because none had been inside Ukraine.
However, journalists with Britain's Guardian and Telegraph newspapers said they saw the Russian military vehicles cross the border into Ukraine.
Russia's denial of this incident reminds us of a wise saying: Denial is not a river in Egypt!
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