The Italian newspaper Il Giornale has posted a video that claims American soldiers are indeed on the ground in Ukraine and helping the government of Kiev.

In a post that covers a purported Jan. 24 attack on the Black Sea port city of Mariupol by troops from the People's Republic of Donetsk, a Ukranian reporter questions a soldier wearing a Ukranian uniform.

"What happened here? Tell me!" he asks. As a nearby camera operator attempts to shoot the soldier's response, the soldier shakes him off — in perfect English, the paper claims. "Out of my face, please."

The story notes: "This, of course, is only one indication of the fact that American soldiers are actually in Ukraine."

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It adds of American presence in the conflict: "It would seem that the Ukrainian guerrillas is [sic] now to become a real war. A war that is fought to the sound of contractors and soldiers in disguise. A civil war that is now in danger of having international repercussions."

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