DAILY MAIL (UK) 18 AUGUST 2014 - RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ARE ON THE VERGE OF SPILLING OVER INTO OPEN CONFLICT

Escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine are on the verge of spilling over into open conflict. Ukraine has accused Moscow of pushing more military equipment over the border, including three missile systems. Rebel separatists Russia is accused of arming yesterday shot down a Ukrainian Mig-29 fighter jet, although the pilot managed to eject safely. The rebels had earlier boasted they were receiving 150 armoured vehicles, including 30 tanks, and 1,200 soldiers who were ‘trained in Russia’. Moscow continues to deny sending military equipment or personnel into Ukrainian territory, but large convoys have been seen massing on the Russian side of the border. Meanwhile some 16 lorries from a 280-strong Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for eastern Ukraine arrived at a rebel-held border crossing yesterday. Kiev insists any aid should cross a government-controlled part of the border. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727070/Ukraine-separatist-rebels-shoot-government-fighter-plane-eastern-Luhansk-region.html#ixzz3Ahl3M9K6