Russians Back in Ukraine

We have to wonder how a country like Russia can insist they have no troops in the Ukraine.  Maybe there are just a lot of trained ex-Russian troops in the Ukraine who learned how to drive tanks, rocket launchers and motorized  SA-11s.  Maybe they don't count the ones they say are soldiers who are "on leave" from the regular Army, and love spending their spare moments in Ukraine's battles along their western border.  These are the kind of fellows every country wants in its army.  

Some of these troops are covert special forces, who also don't count.  We have to think about this before criticising them, since the world seems to accept the idea that denial of such people is OK.  Every country will accept the denial until someone proves otherwise.  There was that one case of a Russian soldier who got caught with six different IDs, one from the Special Forces of Russia, but we discount that one as someone who went on leave and forgot to leave his ID cards at home, where they belong.  There was the case of an idiot taking selfies with his unit while they wandered across the border from Russia to Ukraine and back.  There is a nice series of this rag-tag group if you look on Google Images.  We have to say the Russian forces are not the brightest bulbs on the planet, but their skill is pulling the trigger at the right time.  Putin seems to have picked the right times for them, and let them go on vacation when those were right.  

The problem with the Russians, aside from their lack of subtlety, is their seeming inability to understand that some people who read their stories of how their soldiers came to be in the Ukraine, find them incredible.  That doesn't seem to matter to them, which is odd.  They insult the intelligence of every literate person on the planet.