The “650 Killed” figure is likely fantasy.
There have been several twitter rumors in recent days of mass desertions among the Army, though, as well as the report today that a Ukrainian “spetnaz” unit surrendered to the rebels near Donetsk.
There are also persistent twitter rumors of Ukrainian Army defecting to the locals.
Are they eating babies yet, according to Twitter?
The whole thing is likely a fantasy. The idea that the US administration would side against the Muslims in Ukraine is laughable.
Also this:
(National Guard) Ukraine shot soldiers gathered to the side of the militias
National Guard NKVD supposedly killed 10 Ukrainian Soldiers that wanted to “defect”. This is likely the incident outside of Slovyansk that has been tweeted about for several days now.
http://russian.rt.com/article/32428
The coup government admitted to today that a group of soldiers has defected to the Donetsk Republic.