Russian President Vladimir Putin says there are military units in Ukraine "under the true order of Western counsels".
Claims have likewise showed up on Russian TV and virtual entertainment channels that Nato troops are effectively engaged with the conflict.
Nato part nations have been giving weaponry and calculated help, however have said they aren't sending troops into Ukraine, which isn't an individual from the collusion.
We've taken a gander at the proof accommodated these cases of Nato boots on the ground in Ukraine.
What is being asserted?
In his public location on 21 September, President Putin said: "The Kyiv system has sent off new posses of unfamiliar soldiers of fortune and patriots, military units prepared to Nato principles and under the accepted order of Western guides."
It's notable that unfamiliar contenders have enlisted in Ukrainian military units. In any case, claims are being made by Russian authorities and news sources of serving Nato troops on the ground in Ukraine.
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On 13 September, Ruslan Ostashko, the host of Vremya Pokazhet (The reality of the situation will come out at some point) on Russia's Channel One said: "At the end of the day, warriors are there something else for appearances, for having photographs taken and transferring recordings to TikTok, however it's primarily Nato troops battling there."
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Ruslan Ostashko is the host of a day to day television show on Russia's Station One
All through the program, film taken from web-based entertainment of outsiders purportedly battling in Ukraine was displayed as "proof" of Nato boots on the ground.
Andrei Marochko, a tactical representative for oneself declared Luhansk Individuals' Republic (LPR) in the east of Ukraine, told Russian state-possessed news organization RIA Novosti: "Our knowledge offices uncovered the appearance of ordinary Nato officials in the Kharkiv district.
"The motivation behind their excursion to this area is to sort out collaboration among unfamiliar and Ukrainian units."
Mr Marochko has likewise told Russian state television that Nato officials have shown up in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk district of Ukraine.
Different cases are all the more for the most part about the presence of unfamiliar contenders and don't make the immediate association with Nato - yet leave the connection suggested.
For instance, Vladimir Kornilov, a reporter for RIA Novosti, has said there had been a "sensational expansion in video film of individuals who've come to 'free' Izyum, with English being spoken."
What proof is being given?
It's vital to make an unmistakable qualification between those unfamiliar contenders who've gone freely to Ukraine and troops sent by Nato part nations.
Russian news sources haven't given proof of serving Nato faculty on the ground, just highlighting the presence of individual unfamiliar warriors on the combat zone.
One of the contenders displayed on the Vremya Pokazhet TV program is Malcolm Nance, a previous US maritime official, who has routinely posted recordings of himself in Ukraine over late months.
One video, featured in the television program, shows Mr Nance with a mounted guns battery behind him, shooting what he portrays as "the primary cannons shot of a monstrous joined arms, multi-pivot ground hostile."
With north of 1,000,000 adherents on Twitter, there's tiny that could be viewed as secret about Mr Nance's presence in Ukraine.
He isn't right now serving in the US military and back in April, he shared web-based that he had joined the Ukrainian Unfamiliar Army.
A subsequent individual recognized in supportive of Russian online entertainment posts is another American, Ransack Roy Path, who experienced childhood in the US province of Idaho.
Mr Path likewise consistently posts online recordings of himself implanted with a Ukrainian military unit and names a few other unfamiliar workers in the group. These recordings have been generally shared on supportive of Russian virtual entertainment channels.
Picture of Burglarize Roy Path.
There's no web-based proof to propose he has any past military experience. The US Division of Guard has not answered demands for input about his association with American military powers.
On his web-based entertainment account, Mr Path names a few different individuals in his unit including two English nationals.
The UK's Service of Guard said it wouldn't remark on the help records of previous work force, or on their exercises in struggle zones.
What backing is Nato giving?
Nato part nations are giving enormous amounts of complex weaponry and strategic help to Ukraine, with the US by a long shot the biggest benefactor.
This gear incorporates a few weapon frameworks which are accepted to play played key parts in the contention up to this point, like long-range rocket launchers and hostile to tank weapons.
Furthermore, there has likewise been Western media hypothesis that Nato individuals have been helping both with knowledge and the determination of military targets.
Biggest suppliers of military help to Ukraine
There are around 40,000 Nato troops positioned in collusion part nations in the district, like in the Baltic states and Poland, with one more 300,000 soldiers on guard in light of Russia's attack.
Broad preparation of Ukrainian powers by Nato individuals has been occurring outside the nation, yet no Nato part country has said it has contributed military faculty to battle in Ukraine.
"There is no proof of Nato ground powers taking part in Ukraine," says Edward Arnold at the Regal Joined Administrations Foundation (Rusi), a safeguard and security think tank.
He adds. "There is likewise an exceptionally low probability of this occurrence in the future as Nato looks to moderate heightening dangers."