#Kramatorsk now - guy breezing around in a Russia tracksuit, and he's not even going to the demo. #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/7NMx5houB4
— GrahamWPhillips (@GrahamWP_UK) April 19, 2014
Easter truce in eastern Ukraine. Kiev says won't clear Maidan because protest is legal... http://t.co/bkZnJJqtVt
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) April 19, 2014
Video of a man playing Ukrainian anthem near the Western Wall in #Jerusalem http://t.co/mQm06ba9cZ
— Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) April 19, 2014
Russian banks refute accusations of financing separatists in eastern #Ukraine http://t.co/TP9vLwdqwg @KyivPost pic.twitter.com/kmjIE3xqJ8
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) April 19, 2014
What if #Kiev was there before Moscow… Could they "have the right" (like I do) to annex us? Tricky…. pic.twitter.com/uMPQbUT8DH
— Vladimir Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) April 19, 2014
The U.S. is planning to send a company sized Army element of roughly 150 troops to conduct drills with allies, spanning roughly two weeks respectively in both Poland and Ukraine, the New York Times reported Friday.
The land force exercises being planned by the Obama administration are part of a broader undertaking by NATO to beef up its presence in eastern Europe. It is unclear what U.S. unit will be taking part in the exercises in Poland and Estonia, but more details are expected to be announced next week, the Times reported.
US ground troops to be sent to Poland, Estonia - U.S. - Stripes http://t.co/Q6a8qUuzBC
— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) April 19, 2014
Angry eggs - идея на Пасху pic.twitter.com/n6aQ2H7Q4P
— Константин Рыков (@rykov) April 19, 2014
Секрети еко-фарбування великодніх яєць. Інфографіка: http://t.co/Ob5G3ivAC0 pic.twitter.com/wSC5A5pl1n
— Ukrinform (@UKRINFORM) April 19, 2014
— Євромайдан Львів (@euromaidanlviv) April 19, 2014
— Ukrinform (@UKRINFORM) April 19, 2014
Crimea Tatar MP Mustafa Dzhemilev back in Simferopol, today. pic.twitter.com/my12ZPI4Xl
— Ryskeldi Satke (@RyskeldiSatke) April 19, 2014
Dzhemilev was accompanied by Refat Chubarov, the leader of the Crimean Tatars' self-governing body, the Mejlis.
Mejlis spokeswoman Liliya Muslimova told Ukraine's Channel 5 television that the two leaders were held at the Chonhar checkpoint for about an hour on April 19 before Russian border guards finally allowed them to enter the peninsula, which was annexed by Russia last month.
According to Muslimova, supporters in some 30 vehicles with Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags met the two leaders at the administrative boundary between mainland Ukraine and Crimea.
Both Dzhemilev, who is also a Ukrainian lawmaker, and Chubarov have said publicly that Crimean Tatars will not recognize the peninsula's annexation by Moscow.