Russia rolling into Ukrane while Obama hits happy hour

[Gasser64]

Big bomb on the drone lol

[Forever_frost]

Just saw a headline on yahoo.com that Russia has apparently downed a US drone in Crimea, in tact, by using complex radio-electronic equipment.

Translation: By doing the same thing Iran did, fly over it and tell it's GPS it's back in the Us and it should land.

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Translation: By doing the same thing Iran did, fly over it and tell it's GPS it's back in the Us and it should land.

Spoofing.

[Trip McNeely]

Phone Phreaking.

[LANTIRN]

Translation: By doing the same thing Iran did, fly over it and tell it's GPS it's back in the Us and it should land.

They probably just used a bucket of paint.

[SMKR]

Ukraine's FM now says #Russia troops captured village of Strilkove north of #Crimea w 80 troops, 4 helicopters, & 3 APCs

[SMKR]

Filmed today near the border

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTOCBcM0ltY&sns=em[/ame]

[Gasser64]

A train going by

[barronj]

A train going by

2014 model, by the looks of it!

Ukraine's FM now says #Russia troops captured village of Strilkove north of #Crimea w 80 troops, 4 helicopters, & 3 APCs

Are the hash tags necessary? I can't hardly focus on your post without thinking "godamn this asshole"

I truly appreciate content and perspective though.

[Strychnine]

http://www.janes.com/article/35861/ukrainian-navy-decimated-by-russian-move-into-crimea

Of 15,450 personnel in the Ukrainian navy 12,000 were based in Crimea, the majority have defected or resigned. 12 of 17 major Ukrainian warships have been seized by Russia as well as their only submarine and a large number of aircraft.

Officers of the Ukrainian navy Grisha V-class frigate Lutsk raise the Russian naval ensign on 20 March.

Ukraine's navy now faces an uncertain future. As well as losing the bulk of its ships, helicopters and aircraft, it headquarters building, much of the service's signals intelligence, training, administration, maintenance, and logistics infrastructure has now been lost. This includes the service's main underground ammunition storage site at Inkermann valley, outside Sevastopol. Russian naval patrols have also blockaded the access to the Sea of Azov to the east of Ukraine, cutting off military and civilian access to ports in the east of the country.

On 24 March, the last remaining major unit of the Ukrainian navy on Crimea still holding out - the 750 strong 1st Marine Battalion at Feodesia in the east of the peninsula - was overrun and many of its personnel were arrested. The unit's commanders had been negotiating with the Russians to be allowed to drive off Crimea with all their vehicles, weapons, and equipment so its dispersal will be a significant blow to its morale and unit cohesion.

On 24 March, the Russian authorities claimed to have seized some 189 Ukrainian bases on Crimea, including final sections of the Balbek airbase held by personnel of the 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade; the airbase was overrun by Russian Spetsnaz troops in a dramatic assault two days earlier. The brigade's 39 Mig-29 fighters were seized in the first days of the crisis. The Ukrainian air force's 174th Air Defence Regiment base at Fiolent on the outskirts of Sevastapol was overrun on 21 March and its inventory of S-300 surface-to-air missiles seized. The fate of the last two Ukrainian air defence regiments on Crimea, the 55th regiment at Yevpatoriya and 50th regiment at Feodesia - and their S-300 and Buk-M1 weapon systems - is uncertain.

[jw33]

I bet it is a bidding war for the officers to turn over all their equipment intact to the Russians.

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I guess that wraps that up.

[Gargamel]

I guess that wraps that up.

Pretty much.

You have to wonder what Putin's end game is with this.

Just further access to the Black Sea\Naval Base or something more?

It sure as shit isn't the Crimean "people" he's worried about.

[lowthreeohz]

Endgame is Ukraine.

[Gtracer]

Pretty much.

You have to wonder what Putin's end game is with this.

Just further access to the Black Sea\Naval Base or something more?

It sure as shit isn't the Crimean "people" he's worried about.

He wants to restore the old Soviet Territories that he and other ethnic Russians feel was "stolen" from them by the west. He wants the "glory" of the old soviet empire.