Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia -- New York Times
KIEV, Ukraine — For two weeks, the mysteriously well-armed, professional gunmen known as “green men” have seized Ukrainian government sites in town after town, igniting a brush fire of separatist unrest across eastern Ukraine. Strenuous denials from the Kremlin have closely followed each accusation by Ukrainian officials that the world was witnessing a stealthy invasion by Russian forces.
Now, photographs and descriptions from eastern Ukraine endorsed by the Obama administration on Sunday suggest that many of the green men are indeed Russian military and intelligence forces — equipped in the same fashion as Russian special operations troops involved in annexing the Crimea region in February. Some of the men photographed in Ukraine have been identified in other photos clearly taken among Russian troops in other settings.
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My Comment: The debate on what role Russian special forces have played in eastern Ukraine is one that is going to be discussed for a very long time. As to what is my take .... I have seen some armed protestors operating in an efficient and effective manner .... but are these Russian Special Forces Russian soldiers? .... probably .... but not at the numbers that the Ukraine government is claiming.
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What's instructive is the length of time it took them to decide how to report this when these people had been in the open for weeks.
This report is also contradicting other assessments .... case in point .... the EU intelligence chief disagrees with the consensus that there are Russian soldiers in Ukraine..
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