| 1 | MOSCOW (AP) - Ukraine's border guards service says it has detained a Russian officer who was driving a truck packed with weapons including rocket-propelled grenades. |
| 2 | There was no immediate comment from the Russian military, but the self-styled defense ministry of the rebel forces in Donetsk said Sunday that the claim "provokes irony." |
| 3 | Ukraine and Western countries contend Russia is providing troops and weaponry to eastern Ukraine's rebels, who have been fighting Ukrainian forces since April 2014 in a war that has killed at least 6,400 people. |
| 4 | Russia consistently denies the allegation. |
| 5 | The border guard service said the truck and its two occupants were intercepted late Saturday at a checkpoint about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Donetsk, the main rebel-held city. |
| 6 | It said one of the men acknowledged he was a Russian major. |