looks like russia could be invading the ukraine

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Well, that's about 20 hours old now, if it's the 2 in Crimea

so I hope CNN or MSNBC aren't painting that as "Russia could be invading the Ukraine". I've just watched the BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera and RT, and none of them are talking about a possible 'invasion'. Some did show some daytime pictures (so at least 8 hours old) of Russian armoured personnel carriers parked by a Crimean road. That is probably this:

Russian troops have moved into Crimea in what Moscow is calling a mission to “protect Black Sea Fleet’s positions” but which the Ukrainian government has denounced as an “armed intervention.”

The Russian foreign ministry said Friday that it had informed the Ukrainian government that armoured units from the Black Sea Fleet base near Sevastopol had entered Crimea in order to protect fleet positions.

“The Ukrainian side was also passed a note regarding the movement of armoured vehicles of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, which is happening in full accordance with the foundation Russian-Ukrainian agreement on the Black Sea Fleet,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Friday afternoon.

In the same note the Russian foreign ministry said it had declined a Ukrainian request for “bilateral consultations” on events in Crimea because they are “the result of recent internal political processes in Ukraine.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=741586

The vehicles were, I think, already in Crimea; it's provocative to send them out onto the roads at a time like this, but, not, I'd say, an 'invasion' (a commentator on RT was denying any Russian troops had been seen in Crimea, however - I suppose if they remained inside the vehicles, that would be technically true, but it's pretty outrageous denial of facts, really).