All my friends know how to drive a tank.

newer tanks are just like a car. Older ones are just like construction equipment.

If you don't have a tank to carry them in?

Russian media is claiming the tanks came from a Ukrainian military depot in Artemivsk. Except the Russians (not calling them separatists; the majority of people killed in the Donetsk airport fight were Russian, so I'm calling them what they in fact are) have tried multiple times to get into that depot and failed so far.
They really do have to work on transparency: making their lies less transparent.

Pro-Russian militias in Ukraine are vastly outmanned by the Ukrainian army, and they’ve paid a steep price on the battlefield since the war began in February. But the militia groups recently scored something of a coup. They appear to have landed some tanks.

There’s just one problem with their prized new acquisition: they don’t have anyone who knows how to operate them.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/vocativ-someone-who-knows-how-to-operate-a-tank-wanted-in-east-ukraine-352774.html



We interviewed to be a tank driver for the separatists in Ukraine

As we wrote about earlier, separatists in Ukraine have finally gotten their hands on some tanks, but there’s a hitch: they don’t have anyone to operate them. To solve that problem, the Ukrainian militia groups have taken out an ad on several media sites requesting drivers, gunners and mechanics, and even listing a number to call for more details.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/vocativ-we-interviewed-to-be-a-tank-driver-for-the-separatists-in-ukraine-352779.html

"Gots ta pertect ourselves frum th'gubmint!"

(Reuters) - Ukraine's defence chief said on Friday government forces had regained control of the border with Russia and could stop supplies being sent to arm pro-Russian separatists, but fighting raged for a second day.

A spokesman for government forces said about 300 separatists had been killed in fighting on Thursday in an eastern area about 100 km (60 miles) from the border where fighting continued on Friday. Ukrainian forces had lost seven servicemen.

The rebel casualties could not be verified independently.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meanwhile prepared for a round of high diplomacy to sell a peace plan to allies and adversaries alike in a bid to end the rebel insurgency that threatens the unity of the country.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/06/20/ukraine-crisis-defence-idINKBN0EV1EU20140620?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=401

(CNN) -- A cease-fire by Ukrainian forces who are fighting separatists in the east is in effect immediately, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced Friday. The cease-fire will remain in place until June 27, and the military will only respond if attacked. The cease-fire period is for separatists to lay down their weapons, or else be "destroyed," the President said.

(CNN) -- Ukrainian forces have completed an operation to close off the country's eastern border with Russia, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament told lawmakers on Friday.

Oleksandr Turchynov's announcement, citing Ukraine's Defense Ministry, came a day after NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO had seen a "new Russian military buildup" near the border with Ukraine.

This, Rasmussen said, involved "at least a few thousand more Russian troops deployed to the Ukrainian border, and we see troop maneuvers in the neighborhood of Ukraine."

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/20/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/