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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSee, I take off for a little while to get my wife a truck load of crushed white stone and the world falls apart – now I know how the President feels. Pinto Nag and COB6 send word that a Russian column was struck inside the Ukraine, according to MSN<\/a>;<\/p>\n Ukraine said its artillery partly destroyed a Russian armoured column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia on Friday in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states.<\/p>\n Russia’s government denied its forces had crossed into Ukraine and accused Kiev of trying to sabotage deliveries of aid. NATO said there had been a Russian incursion into Ukraine, while avoiding the term invasion, and European capitals accused the Kremlin of escalating the fighting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Either way, it’s doubtful that Russians will sit still for being in an impact area, and retribution probably won’t be in the form of some sanctions.<\/p>\n A spokesman for Russia’s border guard service was quoted by Russian news agencies as denying that any Russian military units had entered Ukraine.<\/p>\n In a statement issued by the Russian foreign ministry, Moscow accused Ukrainian forces of intensifying the fighting against pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to sabotage Russian efforts to get aid into rebel-held areas.<\/p>\n After Ukraine reported the clash, Russia’s rouble currency weakened against both the dollar and the euro. Russian shares were also dragged lower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Someone tell Hagel to tell the President that the world is exploding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"