“We ... believe that additional Russian military forces are entering this region, but not beyond it,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to assist in repelling aggression from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security John Finer has reported that the United States views Russia's latest steps towards Ukraine as the start of an "invasion".