Best Evidence Russians Are In Ukraine? How Good Separatist Fighters Are -- Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Foreign Staff
BERLIN — The uneasy truce in southeastern Ukraine appears, mostly, to be holding, a development that the Russian government in Moscow is celebrating as a hopeful sign for a besieged region.
Moscow, the word comes, has been deeply troubled by the fighting in the region, and particularly its effect on civilians trapped between the warring Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists calling themselves the People’s Republic of Donetsk.
The problem with best wishes from Moscow is that _ in the eyes of everyone not beholden to the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin _ there would be very little fighting in the region were it not for the Russian weapons and troops. Some experts even think that Russian soldiers are
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My Comment: I have seen more than enough YouTube videos of Russian soldiers in Ukraine .... and how they differed from the local militias. To put it bluntly .... Russian military units were dressed properly with "slightly dirty" but clean weapons, organized and disciplined .... the local militias disorganized and unprofessional with a mix bag of weaponry. The two bottom videos are from regular reader mlacix. The top video .... even though the video does not disclose it .... are soldiers (probably) from southern Russia. The bottom video .... disorganized (but heavily armed) local militia.
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For me the first "real" evidence was when I seen a BTR-82A in Ukraine operated by the rebels, and since then there were footages of some same vehicles had been destroyed. Those fighters could say they just volunteers, and it's up to everyone to belive them or not, but when you see a vehicle which is only operated by one country in the world and you see it fighting in another country, I guess you can say, they are on the ground.
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