Clashes at the Russian Border Become Tougher

UKRAINE - In Brief 12 Jul 2014 by Dmytro Boyarchuk
Over the last few days clashes at the border with Russia became really tough. After surrender of Slovyansk, the city which Moscow propaganda made a symbol of ‘rebel’, Kremlin intensified its activity in this undeclared war. Ukrainian army is trying to encircle the region and to close the border. Moscow perfectly understands the risk of this move. Against this backdrop Russians even stopped hiding and started acting more brazenly. A very telling story happened yesterday. Activists reported (officials confirmed later) that on July 11 artillery squad from Russia territory fired multiple rocket launcher and destroyed few Ukrainian squads (dozens dead and near hundred wounded). Military experts say that this artillery squad was perfectly informed (!) and very well trained (local separatists are not that good). Most probably it was Russian regular army. To make matters worse, border guards report about intensified breakthroughs of military groups from Russian territory. The groups have tanks and heavy artillery and border guards have poor chances to stop them especially at those placed where the border is not locked by Ukrainian regular army. In particular, just for today there were reported two such groups (near 20-30 units of panzers, infantry machines and artillery in each) passing the border near Luhansk. All the developments point to the unpleasant fact that Russia does not plan to step down. There will be no large-scale intervention with declaration of war – it will give no chance for the EU pretending further that nothing happens. But Moscow in this situation does not need declared war – Kremlin will be just sending squads of regular army without any words (that is wh...

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