U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt has said that Russia is sending a growing number of its troops and newest air defense systems to eastern Ukraine and is now directly involved in the fighting.
“Russian supplied tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and multiple rocket launchers have been insufficient to defeat Ukraine’s armed forces. So now an increasing number of Russian troops are intervening directly in fighting on Ukrainian territory,” he wrote on his Twitter page early on Thursday, Aug. 28.
Pyatt said that Russia had also sent its newest air defense systems, including the SA-22, into eastern Ukraine and “is now directly involved in the fighting.”
