The expertly armed, masked men in matching camouflage stripped of all insignia are tough, taciturn and tactically devastating. And according to President Vladimir Putin, they are not — absolutely, categorically not — elite Russian special forces.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Agence France-Presse: Who are the mysterious ‘little green men’ helping Ukraine’s rebels?
A pro-Russian participant takes a photo as armed men wearing military fatigues gather around armoured personnel carriers as they stand guard outside a regional state building seized by Kremlin-backed separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk.
