Ukraine News Updates -- May 28, 2015

Military vehicles drive along a road near the town of Matveev Kurgan in southern Russia near the border with Ukraine. Reuters

Moscow Times/Reuters: Russia Masses Heavy Firepower on Border with Ukraine — Witness

KHUTOR CHKALOVA — Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.

Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen had taken insignia off their fatigues. As such, they match the appearance of some of the forces spotted in eastern Ukraine, which Kiev and its Western allies allege are covert Russian detachments.

Ukraine News Updates -- May 28, 2015

Exclusive: Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine - witness -- Reuters
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Ukraine Seeks Arms as Putin Makes Russian Troop Losses Secret -- Bloomberg
Ukraine Seeks Arms as Putin Makes Russian Troop Losses Secret -- Swiss Info
VP Biden suggests sending weapons to Ukraine -- UPI
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Scathing Report Says Russia At War With Ukraine, Putin Lying -- Radio Free Europe
Russian Soldier Captured in Ukraine Will Cooperate With Investigators -- Moscow Times
Poroshenko signs law allowing moratorium on Ukraine’s foreign debt payment -- RT
Ukraine president signs law allowing suspension of debt repayments: press service -- Reuters
Ukraine takes ‘odious’ path to default -- Financial Times
Ukraine humanitarian crisis ‘one of the world’s worst’ – UN refugee agency -- RT
The vulnerable victims of the Ukrainian Conflict -- Deutsche Welle
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