WE ARE ALL BOYS WHO WON'T SHOOT OUR OWN PEOPLE

The Ukrainian Defence Minister is denying that a unit of the Ukrainian military has defected from the neo-Nazi NATO-sponsored putschists to support the people of Ukraine.

He is beginning to look and sound like Comical Ali, who in 2003 was filmed saying that Baghdad would never fall into the hands of the Coalition of the Willing as American tanks drove past behind him.

With the rise of social media there are gerzillions of photographs and film of the tank and APCs bearing Russian flags.

And here is what one member of the defecting unit has told a Reuters reporter:

A soldier manning one of the troop carriers now under the control of pro-Russian separatists identified himself to Reuters as being a member of Ukraine's 25th paratrooper division from Dnipropetrovsk.

He said: "All the soldiers and the officers are here. We are all boys who won't shoot our own people."