Proof that Russia is helping to foment unrest in Ukraine is mounting, with Kyiv this week saying it has irrefutable, smoking-gun evidence, so to speak, of Russian military vehicles and weapons being used against its forces in the country’s embattled east.

For weeks the Kyiv government and Western

officials have pointed the finger at Moscow, saying it has tacitly if not actively supported the unrest and supplied financing, manpower

and weapons, including at least three tanks, according to satellite images obtained by NATO, to separatist militias in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.