Ukraine's Forces Attack Russian Armoured Convoy

Ukraine's forces say they attacked a Russian armoured convoy that crossed on to Ukrainian soil "and part of it no longer exists".

Military officials in Kiev said they tracked the vehicles, including armoured personnel carriers, from the border and then attacked with artillery.

President Petro Poroshenko discussed the incursion with British Prime Minister David Cameron and said a "considerable part of this equipment was destroyed overnight by Ukrainian artillery".

Sky's Sam Kiley said if the claims are true "it is a very serious development"  in the four-month conflict, and "could be the beginnings of something much more dangerous".

World stock markets have tumbled on the news.

Russia denied its forces had crossed into Ukraine, and accused Kiev of trying to sabotage deliveries of aid.

The Russian vehicles crossed the border near the town of Donetsk on Thursday night, according to journalists from The Guardian and Daily Telegraph.

This was later confirmed by Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who said it was a "clear demonstration of continued Russian involvement in the destabilisation of eastern Ukraine".

Earlier, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said he was "very alarmed" at the Russian military incursion.

Mr Hammond has summoned the Russian ambassador to clarify the situation.

A Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine

Meanwhile, the Red Cross said it is still trying to verify that an aid convoy from Russia to Ukraine is carrying nothing more than humanitarian aid.

Ukrainian border guards are checking the cargo on Russian territory near the Ukrainian settlement of Izvaryne, held by separatists.

Russian armoured vehicles outside Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in Rostov

A dozen Russian armoured trucks are waiting with the aid lorries.

Ukraine is concerned the convoy of about 260 vehicles would be used as a 'Trojan horse', allowing Russia to establish a permanent presence in the east.

In an effort to ease tensions, Russian officials allowed journalists to see the contents of trucks.

Among the supplies reporters saw were bottles of water, sacks of buckwheat and portable generators.

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