Russian armoured column with 1,200 fighters is on way to besieged city of Donetsk..

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Daily Mail:

Damien Gayle for MailOnline and Reuters

16 August 2014

 

A rebel leader in eastern Ukraine has claimed that a whole armoured column of reinforcements is coming to his aid from Russia.

 

Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, said he was expecting 150 armoured vehicles and 1,200 fighters to cross the border.

 

In a video posted on a rebel website, he said the troops had spent four months training in Russia, a contradiction of Kremlin claims it has not materially supported Ukraine's rebels.

 

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