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From BI:
"Canada's NATO Delegation Just Epically Trolled Russia With This Map Of Ukraine"

Canada's delegation to NATO on Wednesday posted a helpful guide for Russian soldiers who have crossed the Ukrainian border "by accident." On Twitter, the delegation posted a simple map of "Russia" and "Not Russia." "Geography can be tough. Here’s a guide for Russian soldiers who keep getting lost & ‘accidentally’ entering," the delegation wrote along with the map. Twice in the past three days, Ukraine has accused Russian soldiers of crossing the border and fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in southeastern Ukraine. Ukraine's state security service said Monday it detained 10 Russian paratroopers who crossed into Ukrainian territory. But a Russian defense ministry source said the soldiers crossed "most likely by accident," according to Reuters. And on Wednesday, Ukraine's military accused more Russian soldiers of crossing the border, saying a group of Russian paratroopers entered through the small town of Amvrosiyivka in five armored infantry carriers and a truck.   Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, wrote on Twitter Tuesday that Russia's recent moves in Ukraine "may indicate that a Russian counteroffensive is underway" in southeastern Ukraine, where fighting between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian separatists has raged for months. Ukraine and Western officials on Wednesday warned that Russia was opening up another, major front in the war, according to The New York Times.  The officials told The Times that Russia has provided support for separatists in the region of Luhansk, where government forces have had recent success in routing pro-Russian rebels. And they are also aiding a separatist push in the south toward the town of Mariupol, a major port on the Azov Sea. According to the report, Western officials believe the Russian military has fired artillery from within Ukraine. They said it has already been fired to shell Ukrainian forces in Luhansk. "We judge that self-propelled artillery is operated by Russians rather than separatists since no separatist training on this artillery has occurred to date," an administration official told The Times. Ukraine released video of the soldiers it detained on Monday. It is considered the strongest evidence to back claims by Ukraine, NATO, and the West that Moscow is intervening directly in southeast Ukraine.   And according to a translation from Interpreter Magazine, the soldiers did know where they were going.

Russians: "I guessed," the soldier said, "but I realized it when they began to bomb us."

Ukrainians: "Ah-ha. How did you end up on Ukrainian territory?"

Russians: "We went in convoys. Not on the roads but through the fields. I didn't even see when we crossed the border."

Ukrainians: "But did you know you were going to Ukraine?"

Russians: "We knew," the Russian paratrooper confirmed.

 

The Canadian delegation's map also notably still includes the region of Crimea — which was formally annexed by Russia in March — as part of Ukraine. The West has refused to recognize and has condemned Russia's annexation of Crimea, and the U.S. and E.U. have imposed sanctions, but there's not much more they can or want to practically do about it. About a month after Russia annexed Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged he had sent in Russian forces to support local defense teams in the region while fighting raged. He said the troops were deployed to protect Russian-speaking citizens in Crimea.  "Of course we had our servicemen behind the self-defense units of Crimea," Putin said during an annual televised call-in with the nation in April. "We had to make sure what is happening now in eastern Ukraine didn't happen there."  Ultimately, Western officials fear that the new Russian offensive could be part of an overall plan to "carve out a land link" between Russia and Crimea.

^ While this seems funny it isn't funny that Russia and the ethnic Russian terrorists are still fighting in the Ukraine. ^

http://www.businessinsider.com/canada-nato-russia-ukraine-putin-2014-8