Yes, it's as simple as that, confirmed by both Kiev and NATO about 100 tanks and armored vehicles crossed the Russian - Ukrainian border and occupied a few small cities near the border. Of course this is viewed as a rebel counter-offensive by Moscow but weren't the rebels besieged in their last two remaining strongholds in Luhansk and Donetsk?

The Western powers protested to Kremlin but they seem incapable of doing more even with Ukraine asking desperately for military assistance. Kiev's army is pushed back and will have a very tough challenge fighting against the superior Russian weapons delivered to the rebels.

In the meantime the country is slowly falling apart economically with the cost of the war being harder and harder to sustain each day. Lost between the EU and Russia, with a civil war scaring off foreign investors and a resigning government it seems there are dark horizons for Ukraine.