The Invasion So Far: Visual Summary Of Russian Forces And Movements

Zero Hedge ^ | 1 March 2014 | Tyler Durden

[Errant]

Moments ago Interfax reported that two Russian anti-submarine warships have appeared off the coast of Ukraine's Crimea region, violating an agreement on Moscow's lease of a naval base, according to a Ukrainian military source as saying. Then again what else would a Ukrainian military source say. The source added that the two vessels, part of Russia's Baltic Fleet, had been sighted in a bay at Sevastopol, where Moscow's Black Sea Fleet has a base.

So imagine two extra anti-sub ships off Sevastopol in the map below which until this latest update from Contemporary Issues and Geography, was keeping an accurate running update of all the most recent developments in the staggered Russian invasion of the Ukraine.

[ScaniaBoy]

Are we surprised:

Obama did not attend the WH national security meeting on Ukraine but was briefed by natsec adviser Susan Rice.
— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) March 1, 2014

[wideawake]

Correct. Ukrainians have a right to be angry, but they need to think clearly.

They are dealing with a cold, calculating secret policeman now - not that fat flunky Yanukovych.

[Errant]

Perhaps western Ukraine will hold out against the Ruskies, but you can forget about everything east of the Dnipro...

[Ms. Blunt]

This situation is really confusing and of course we are being bombarded by the press..but there reports from the ground are saying that the current community organizers operating in Kiev are not Ukrainians, but Chenheb insurgents that have started murdering the Ukrainians that took down the statues of Lenin and Stalin. They are saying they asked for help to protect the airport to stop the influx of insurgents. I certainly question the info we receive from our protectionist media. They will certainly be waving the NATO flag and we know who the asshat is that controls it.

[Errant]

Exactly. But one cannot exclude the possibility some of the protestors in Kharkov and other cities are in fact Russian agents provocateurs sent in to destabilize the situation.

True. And isn't it the odd coincidence that this really got going just after the Winter Olympics ended...

[wideawake]

Obama's legislature actually has enough members who aren't sycophants and who could interfere with his plans.

Putin has eliminated such inconveniences from his one-man rule.

Good to see that you were fooled by Putin's scam.

[ScaniaBoy]

Ukrainians have a right to be angry, but they need to think clearly.

Better late than never, eh?

If the opposition had kept up the pressure against Yanukovich without the continuous occupation of the main square in Kiev, which was bound to act as a flashpoint for violent forces on both sides, they would have been able to kick him out in the upcoming elections and then make a decision vis-à-vis the EU. The situation would have been very much different then!

[wideawake]

Without air superiority, the east would be difficult to hold given its demographics.

[Errant]

Obama did not attend the WH national security meeting..

He could have been suffering a hangover from yesterday's happy hour(s) and a late night romp with a bf, from the looks of some in the background of the pic of the event.

[wideawake]

You really think that Yanukovych couldn't have used the extra time to neutralize opposition leaders and adjust election results?

He needed to go exactly the way he went.

But now they are dealing with the Stasi's man in Moscow, and not a clown like Yanukovych.

They need to adjust tactics.

[Errant]

The Russians will roll through the Eastern Ukraine like crap through a goose, to borrow one of Patton’s expressions... ;)

[ScaniaBoy]

No, I don’t think he would have been able to do that. If nothing else the economy would have precluded that.

[Errant]

This situation is really confusing and of course we are being bombarded by the press..but there reports from the ground are saying that the current community organizers operating in Kiev are not Ukrainians

Remember the little lady from the State Dept. who was intercepted sayin' 'F' the EU... This has Soros and NGO fingerprints all over it, IMO...

[wideawake]

I thought the economy would have precluded Obama's reelection.

[ScaniaBoy]

True, but still an enormous difference between the US and Ukraine (despite Zero).

[Zeneta]

As I watch the live broadcast here:

http://thepunditpress.com/2014/03/01/live-video-of-un-security-council-on-ukraine/

I have two take-aways so far.

1. For the first time I hear that the Protests in Kiev have been fueled by both the EU and the US ?

2. They seem to be attempting to paint the narrative that Russia is justified in their actions, as they are trying to protect the Russian speaking populations. Protecting them against those that have come in and torn down the statutes of Lenin etc...

Again this is what I see the “MEDIA” doing.

[RedMDer]

March Madness

Less than $4.9k to go!!
Git-R-Done!

[gura]

Germany was a lot smaller and almost won.

[Errant]

I think they pretty much have the Crimean peninsula wrapped up. Perhaps they’ll settle for that for now.

I wouldn't if I were Putin. I'd make everyone think I was going to take it all, then settle for the eastern half to the great relief of those now running the western world.

[Errant]

1. For the first time I hear that the Protests in Kiev have been fueled by both the EU and the US ?

There is probably some truth to that. Putin is using it to his advantage, true or not, and if it were true, it seems to have backfired.