ukrainian armored vehicles. ukrainian officials have strongly denied this ever took place. there was no crossing, no ukrainian casualties, they insist. all this is just a pretext, they say, to ratchet up tensions. earlier, there was more kremlin theater on state television. a carefully choreographed session with a normally closed russian security council discussing eastern ukraine. and then, called on, one by one, to tell the russian leader what he wanted to hear. the situation there is tense, the russian defense minister says. serious provocations are being prepared, he alleges, to impose a forcible solution on the region. the implication is that russia should act. basically, ukraine doesn t even need these territories now, said
say to ratchet up tensions. earlier, there was more kremlin theater on state television. a carefully choreographed session of the normally closed russian security council discussing eastern ukraine. then called on one by one to tell the russian leader what he wanted to hear. translator: the situation there is tense, the russian defense minister says, serious provocations are being prepared, he alleges, to impose a forcible solution on the region. the implication is that russia should act. translator: basically, ukraine doesn t even need these territories now, said dmitri medvedev, the former russian president and prime minister. the residents have not been receiving any support from ukraine in years, he added. on the contrary, they are subjected to mass repression.
discussing eastern ukraine and then called on one by one to tell the russian leader what he wanted to hear. the situation there is tense, the russian defense minister says. serious provocations are being prepared, he alleges, to impose a forcible solution on the region. the implication is that russia should act. basically, ukraine doesn t even need these territories now, sid dmitry med ved ov, a former russian president and prime minister. the residents have not been receiving any support from ukraine in years, he added. on the contrary, they re subjected to mass repression. on russian state media, these were the jubilant scenes in donetsk, the main city in one of the breakaway regions, when news filtered back that moscow had recognized the territory as an independent state. russian flags and fireworks set
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