UPDATE – Here Comes A Strongly Worded Letter
The UN Security Council is having an urgent closed-door meeting on #Ukraine in New York now #UNSC
— Jonathan Fryer (@jonathanfryer) February 28, 2014
UPDATE – Helicopters Of Russian Origin Flying Over Crimea
UPDATE – A Communications Disruption Can Mean Only One Thing, Invasion …
Breaking News: #Ukraine telecom company says connectivity between #Crimea and the rest of country is cut off.
— Nikoloz (@NikolosGeorgian) February 28, 2014
UPDATE – Troops Take Crimea
#Ukraine: more pics alleg. showing professional #Russia separatist gunmen seizing #Crimea airport #putin #simferopol pic.twitter.com/5OCamxI4qP
— East of Brussels (@EastOfBrussels) February 28, 2014
UPDATE – Armored Personnel Carriers Entering Crimea
CONFIRMED: Russian APC convoy moving in Crimea without permission from #Ukraine government http://t.co/NtU7KqUAfe pic.twitter.com/xVmtbzCGHE
— The Interpreter (@Interpreter_Mag) February 28, 2014
BREAKING NEWS: 13 Russian aircraft landed at base near Sevastopol with 150 people on each. Via @SkyNews
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) February 28, 2014
Via AP:
Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military air base near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula, a top Ukrainian official said Friday, accusing Moscow of an “armed invasion”.
“Thirteen Russian aircraft landed at the airport of Gvardeyskoye (near Simferopol) with 150 people in each one,” Sergiy Kunitsyn, the Ukrainian president’s special representive in Crimea, told the local ATR television channel, adding the air space had been closed. It was not immediately clear if Russia had the right to use the base or send additional troops there under its agreements with Ukraine.