US Accuses 'Lying' Russia Of Ukraine Incursion

The United States has accused Russia of sending combat forces across the border into Ukraine as it warned Moscow economic sanctions may be tightened.

Speaking at the White House, President Barack Obama said Russia has been supporting pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine "for months".

He rejected Moscow's repeated denials of involvement in the conflict but ruled out any direct US military intervention in the crisis,.

"I consider the actions that we've seen in the last week a continuation of what's been taking place for months now," Mr Obama said.

"The separatists are backed, trained, armed, financed by Russia. Russia determined that it had to be a little more overt in what it had already been doing, but it's not really a shift."

Ukraine's military said on Friday Russian President Vladimir Putin's call for a 'humanitarian corridor' to be set up to allow Ukrainian troops to withdraw showed the separatists were "led and controlled directly from the Kremlin".

Meanwhile, Washington's envoy to the United Nations hit out at Russia during an emergency session of its Security Council 

US Ambassador Samantha Power said: "Russia has to stop lying and has to stop fueling this conflict.

"The mask is coming off. We see Russia's actions for what they are: a deliberate effort to support and now fight alongside illegal separatists in another sovereign country."

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Russia has stepped up its military presence in Ukraine's east.

She said Russia has sent "combat forces, armoured vehicles, artillery, and surface-to-air systems" to Ukraine.

She also accused Russia of "playing a direct supporting role to the separatists proxies and mercenaries".

The US and European countries have imposed tough sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea in March.

A pro-Russian separatist seen in the eastern city of Donetsk

Nato is due to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis later today, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said an EU summit on Saturday would discuss the prospect of further sanctions.

A spokesman for Ukraine's National Security Council, Colonel Andriy Lysenko, said earlier two columns of tanks had fired at a border post, before rolling into Ukraine.

His comments followed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's claim on Thursday that Russian forces had "entered" the country.

The tanks are reported to have crossed into a southern area of the Donetsk region, where the separatists have made significant gains in recent days.

Nato has released satellite imagery purportedly showing self-propelled artillery battery.

A Nato official said at least 1,000 Russian troops had entered Ukraine with sophisticated equipment and had been in "direct contact" with Ukrainian forces, resulting in casualties.

At a crisis meeting of the UN Security Council, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin accused Kiev of "waging war against its own people."

However, British Ambassador to the UN, Mark Lyall Grant, listed "overwhelming" evidence to the contrary.

"It is simply not credible for Russia and its proxies in (the eastern regions of) Donetsk and Luhansk to keep claiming that these serving members of the Russian armed forces are in Ukraine by accident or on holiday," he said.

"Nor is it credible for Russia to continue claiming to the whole world including to the Russian people that Russian soldiers are not present in Ukrainian territory."

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