Western officials confirmed on Aug. 28 that Russian military forces are directly involved in combat alongside Ukrainian separatists in eastern Ukraine, as the months-long civil war escalated in recent days.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Time: Russian forces fighting alongside separatists in Ukraine, NATO says
A member of Ukrainian volunteer battalion Dnipro holds his weapon though a hole in a truck covered in steel plates near the small southern Ukrainian city of Novoazovsk, Donetsk region, on August 27, 2014.
