Ng-animate with ui-router when using $ state.go

Question

I am using Angular 1.2.18, ng-animate 1.2.18 and ui-router 0.2.10 (but I tried with the latest build from git repo). When I turn on the animation and define my css transition, everything seems to work fine if the change of state is caused by clicking the link with href / ui-sref. But when I use $ state.go ('mystate'), it changes state correctly, as always, but the transition does not play at all.

Are all these libraries even compatible with each other?