The image, which was posted on the Twitter account of Russia's embassy in the United Arab Emirates, contains the message: #NATO's latest evidence of #Russian armor invading #Ukraine has been leaked! Seems to be the most convincing ever!
The picture makes a mockery of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between government troops and Russian-backed separatists.
It comes as renewed shelling near Donetsk airport threatened to end a fragile ceasefire between the sides.
The five months of fighting has left 2,600 dead.
Speaking at the Nato summit in Wales, David Cameron said he could not accept the division of Ukraine and promised leadership and 1,000 troops for a new Nato spearhead rapid-reaction force based in neighbouring Poland.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko Ukrainian servicemen
Crisis: Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armoured vehicle
The PM also insisted that new sanctions imposed today would remain until the situation was clearer.
He closed the summit by telling the assembled leaders, including Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, that a “clear message had been sent” to Russia.
Condemning President Putin’s “indefensible” support for separatists, he vowed Nato would “stand behind Ukraine’s right to make its own decisions and not have it dictated by tanks rolling over the border”.
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He went on: “We have also agreed to step up Nato’s ability to respond quickly to any threat with a new multinational Spearhead force."The UK will provide a battle group and a brigade HQ and I hope other nations will set out their plans too.”
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Nato leaders had a “great deal of scepticism” about the ceasefire which requires Ukrainian troops to pull back from rebel-held areas they were trying to retake.
But he stressed that Britain will not send troops to help Kiev.
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NATO: Cameron at the NATA summit in Wales
Britain is the only country to commit a contingent to the 4,000-strong Spearhead force which will be able to deploy in 48 hours from late next year.
Troops from the high-readiness 16 Air Assault Brigade and 3rd Division are expected to be included.
RAF jets are already in Lithuania helping police Baltic airspace.
The second of the Royal Navy’s next generation of aircraft carriers will be brought into service rather than sold, Mr Cameron said at the end of the summit.
He called the decision to keep HMS Prince of Wales an “investment in British security”.
She was built alongside HMS Queen Elizabeth but faced being disposed of or mothballed to save money.
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