Ukraine: Nato to meet amid claims of Russian invasion

The Ukrainian government says its forces are now fighting Russian troops, not Russian-backed separatists

Barack Obama at the White House
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Emergency meetings have been called by Nato, the United Nations and the European Union after Kiev accused Moscow of a de facto invasion and Barack Obama said Russia was engineering the violence in Ukraine.

The US president said that fighting was not the result of an internal uprising, but of "deep Russian involvement", the BBC reports. President Poroshenko of Ukraine accused Russia of sending troops and armoured vehicles to fight in the southeast of his country.

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