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in a telephone call that a "significant" part of the Russian armored column had been destroyed, according to the Ukrainian leader's website.
"Much of this equipment was destroyed by the Ukrainian artillery at night," the website says, according to Ukrinform new agency.
Andriy Lysenko, front man for Ukraine's National Security Defense Council, also reported that parts of the armored were "destroyed."
"Appropriate actions were undertaken and a part of it no longer exist," Lysenko told news hounds. He said the military convoy had been closely observed since crossing the border from Russia.
A news hound for The Guardian said he saw a column of 23 armored personnel carriers, supported by fuel trucks and other logistics vehicles with official Russian military plates, crossing into Ukraine "through a gap in a barbed wire fence that demarcates the border."
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leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen earlier confirmed that "a Russian incursion" over the Ukrainian border had been observed.
"It is a clear demonstration of continued Russian involvement in the destabilization of eastern Ukraine," Rasmussen said at a news conference in Denmark, according to the news agency AFP.
The British foreign office summoned Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko "to clarify reports of Russian military incursion," the BBC reported.
Russia's foreign ministry, meanwhile, said only that Ukrainian forces are engaging in intense fighting in Eastern Ukraine to stop humanitarian aid to the region.
The ministry warned that Ukraine was trying to halt the Russian humanitarian aid from reaching besieged areas controlledby rebels.
"We draw attention to the sharp intensification of military actions by Ukrainian forces with the obvious goal to block the route, agreed upon with Kiev, of the humanitarian convoy from the Russia-Ukraine border to Lugansk," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The MFA said Moscow had information that the 262-truck Russian humanitarian aid convoy, which was stalled near the same border area where the armored convoy purportedly crossed, "may be attacked by Kiev's forces, with the 'punitive' Aidar Battalion planning to mine the road that the vehicles will use,"according to RT.com.
Ukraine had insisted that the goods -- food, generators and medical supplies -- be inspected and reloaded before being allowed to proceed to hard-hit areas of eastern Ukraine, particularly the besieged city of Luhansk.