Ukraine announced today (August 26, 2014) that it had captured 10 Russian soldiers in the eastern Donetsk region, while Russia claimed that they crossed the border "by accident," the Fox News website reports.
Ukraine said it captured the soldiers in the area of Amvrosiivka, near the Russian border. The region has been torn apart by fighting between government troops and pro-Russian separatists who declared independence in the region in April.
The announcement came as the presidents of Russia and Ukraine sat down for talks today, meeting face-to-face for the first time since June. Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko were joined by the presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan and three senior officials from the European Union in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.
Footage of five of the Russian captives was posted on Facebook and showed the men dressed in camouflage fatigues. Ukraine's Defense Minister seized on the capture -- the first such event claimed by authorities -- as proof that Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine alongside Ukrainian separatists.
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