"Russians" in Eastern Ukraine : The Obama administration and Kiev government have tried to base this claim on photographic evidence that the NYTimes recently had to retract

Pictures presented by Washington and Kiev as evidence of Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, and published on Monday by the New York Times, were unverified and in fact contradicted the claims they were to support.

The US State department acknowledged the error and the New York Times back-tracked on its Monday story, which claimed “photographs and descriptions from eastern Ukraine endorsed by the