Did Ukrainian Forces Attack And Destroy A Russian Miltiary Incursion Or Is This Just A Fabricated Story?

Russian servicemen drive armored personnel carriers on the outskirts of the city of Belgorod near the Russian-Ukrainian border on April 25, 2014. Stringer/Reuters

Did Ukraine Attack Its Own Tanks? White House "Can't Confirm Russian Convoy Was Destroyed By Kiev" -- Zero Hedge

While today's trading session was marked by news which at first blush correlated with what may be the 2014 equivalent of the Archduke Ferdinand shooting, in retrospect the newsflow made painfully little sense. Let's recap:

1. Yesterday afternoon, two UK reporters working for the Guardian and Telegraph, supposedly located by the border in east Ukraine, reported that they were "eyewitnesses" as a convoy of military trucks crossed the Russian border into the breakaway Donetsk republic, aka Ukraine. While there have been photos of the military trucks that have accompanied the Russian humantiarian convoy on Russian territory, there has so far been no proof, aside from said eyewitness reports, confirming Russian military vehicles entered or were in Ukraine. 
2. This morning Ukraine military’s spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, shocked the world when newswires reported that Ukraine forces had attacked an armed convoy from Russia, and "destroyed" a part of it. This was subsequently reiterated by the president of Ukraine himself who said that "the given information was trustworthy and confirmed because the majority of that machines had been eliminated by the Ukrainian artillery at night", and by the secretary-general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who said that the alliance had detected an “incursion” of vehicles from Russia last night, adding that “what we have seen last night is the continuation of what we have seen for some time." Alas, as in the case above, just more verbal reports, with zero actual evidence.
3. Shortly thereafter, Russia responded when the Russian defense ministry said that there was no Russian military column that crossed into Eastern Ukraine, and that the above reports are based on "some fantasies."

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My Comment: The Ukrainians are adamant that they destroyed a Russian military convoy on Ukrainian territory. NATO is saying the following .... NATO saw "Russian incursion" into Ukraine: Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Economic Times/Reuters).  The Russian Defense Ministry is denying reports that a military column even crossed into Ukraine. But what is surprising is that the U.S. government is hinting that the Russians may be telling the truth .... US: No Confirmation on Reports Russian Military Entered Ukraine (Voice of America).

So what happened?

I am not there so I rely on my friends, family, and contacts in both Ukraine and Russia on what is happening in this civil war. To begin .... my sources in the Ukraine government have admitted to me that they have no photo or video evidence to prove their government's claim that they destroyed a Russian armored column on Ukrainian territory. My Russian contacts in Moscow tell me that they have no idea on what is the basis for the Ukrainian government to make such a claim .... to them this is just an disinformation campaign. And as for my family and friends in Russia and Ukraine who are living with this mess .... they are telling me to trust nobody.

Talk about the fog of war.