
Debunking the videos Russia used as a pretext to send troops to eastern Ukraine
CNN
In the course of a day, when Russia carefully choreographed its justification for sending troops into eastern Ukraine, two strange videos popped up on social media.
One video allegedly showed the Monday shelling of a Russian border post in the Rostov region, which runs along Ukraine's eastern border.
Another video, which surfaced on Telegram later that day, purportedly showed a group of Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrating Russia from Ukraine, in the same region.

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