Earlier today, I slugged a post — the “link” that follows this — “Mariupol Under Fire”, which related articles I went a seeking.  I wasn’t too far off the mark:

http://www.france24.com/en/20140904-russia-ukraine-donetsk-mariupol-ceasefire/ – 9/04/2014.

However, what I ended up doing was scraping and posting news clips, and “Mariupol” was forgotten, except in the slugged title and on Twitter.  My apologies then to those who today had been seeking similar data on the appearance of Russian military assets in the Ukrainian battle space.

Now, the slug that Twitter treated as a header as turned true!

Or more true than was suggested earlier.  The following is about an hour old from the Los Angeles Times:

“It is a totally new game,” said Oleg Odnorozhenko, deputy commander of the volunteer Azov Battalion, adding that the city’s fighters are now certain they are being attacked by regular Russian army troops, not just mercenaries and homegrown separatists.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-ukraine-russia-mariupol-20140904-story.html – “Russian troops attacking Mariupol, Ukrainian militia leader says.’  – 9/4/2014.

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