article_snippet: : Ukraine's military vehicles are being repaired with COINS where bullet-holes have made Ukraine's military vehicles otherwise unfit for new duties on the front lines .
article_snippet: Russian President Vladimiar Putin has consistently denied arming rebels in the war in eastern Ukraine, which began in April after Moscow annexed the mostly Russian-speaking Crimean Peninsula .
article_snippet: Pro-Russian rebels last week inspected the rubble of a destroyed coal mine that was used as a Ukrainian army outpost .
article_snippet: Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has consistently denied arming rebels in the war in eastern Ukraine, which began in April after Moscow annexed the mostly Russian-speaking Crimean Peninsula.
article_snippet: Father Alexandr Matveev led Father Alexandr Matveev congregation in servcies held in Father Alexandr Matveev office on March 8; their Russian Orthodox church's main hall was destroyed by Russian shelling in 2014 .
article_snippet: Earnest said Russian-backed separatists includes unmanned drones to help defend Ukrainian forces and enhance Ukrainian forces communication; radios and other secure communications equipment; radars to warn and protect against mortar and artillery fire; and medical equipment, including military ambulances.
article_snippet: Nuland said that in the past few days, there have been new transfers of Russian tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery and rocket equipment over the border to the separatists in eastern Ukraine.