Photos Link Masked Men In East Ukraine To Russia - NYTimes.com

Photos Link Masked Men In East Ukraine To Russia
KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE - APRIL 18: Armed pro-Russian activists prepare their equipment on April 18, 2014 in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Tension has been rising in Ukraine, with pro-Russian activists occupying buildings in more eastern towns and a Russian fighter jet making passes over a U.S. warship in the Black Sea. (Photo by Ilya Pitalev/Kommersant Photo via Getty Images)
KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE - APRIL 18: Armed pro-Russian activists prepare their equipment on April 18, 2014 in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Tension has been rising in Ukraine, with pro-Russian activists occupying buildings in more eastern towns and a Russian fighter jet making passes over a U.S. warship in the Black Sea. (Photo by Ilya Pitalev/Kommersant Photo via Getty Images)

KIEV, Ukraine — For two weeks, the mysteriously well-armed, professional gunmen known as “green men” have seized Ukrainian government sites in town after town, igniting a brush fire of separatist unrest across eastern Ukraine. Strenuous denials from the Kremlin have closely followed each accusation by Ukrainian officials that the world was witnessing a stealthy invasion by Russian forces.

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