Even as Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, was heading to the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, tensions in Ukraine were escalating. Scores of tanks, lorries and artillery, unmarked and stripped of licence plates, were snaking along Ukrainian roads. Kyiv accused Moscow of sending in more troops; Russia denied it. The ceasefire that never worked is close to being outright non-existent.
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Wearing World War II-era uniform of the Red Army troops, Russian soldiers take part in the military parade on the Red Square in Moscow on Nov. 7.