Russia Opens 3rd Front With a New Offensive, Ukrainian and Western Officials Say

BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:48 PM EDT

Russia Opens 3rd Front With a New Offensive, Ukrainian and Western Officials Say Tanks, artillery and infantry have crossed from Russia into an unbreached part of eastern Ukraine in recent days, attacking Ukrainian forces and causing panic and wholesale retreat not only in the small border town of Novoazovsk but a wide swath of territory, in what Ukrainian and Western military officials are calling a stealth invasion. The attacks outside Novoazovsk and in an area to the north essentially have opened a new, third front in the war in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists, along with the fighting outside the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. READ MORE » http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/world/europe/ukraine-russia-novoazovsk-crimea.html?emc=edit_na_20140827