Hope for a resolution to the five-month crisis faded after Ukraine accused Russia of launching a military incursion across its eastern border.
Ukraine accused Russia of a new military incursion into its territory a day after talks between both countries' presidents failed to mark a breakthrough in bringing the five-month crisis to an end.
A group of Russian soldiers who were captured on Ukrainian territory on Monday, Aug. 26 according to the Ukrainian Security Service.
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Ukraine said Wednesday a group of Russian servicemen "on a special mission" had crossed into Ukrainian territory and entered the town of Amvrosiyivka, close to where 10 Russian soldiers were detained on Monday, Reuters reported.
Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said the soldiers were in armored infantry carriers and a truck.
The Russian defense ministry did not respond to allegations of the incursion. For the first time however, sources in the defense ministry admitted that Russian soldiers on border patrol were in Ukraine but said they had crossed over into Ukrainian territory "by accident," The Guardian reported.
State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Russia sent additional columns of tanks and armored vehicles into Ukrainian territory and that a "Russian-directed counteroffensive is likely underway" in the eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Psaki accused Russia of being dishonest to its own people by sending Russian forces into Ukraine without informing them or their parents about its actions.
On Tuesday, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko met for the first time since June to discuss the conflict that has claimed more than 2,000 lives.
AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service
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