Today's map from the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council:
From Reuters:
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to skip a working session at the Group of 20 leaders summit on Sunday and bring forward his departure, said a Russian official travelling with Putin, after he came under pressure from Western leaders over the crisis in Ukraine.
Putin has been confronted over Russia's position on Ukraine by several leaders at the G20 summit in Brisbane, including U.S. President Barack Obama.
Western leaders have threatened further sanctions if Russia does not withdraw troops and weapons from its neighbouring nation, overshadowing talks on how to lift flagging global economic growth.
That concludes our live blogging for Friday, November 14. Follow our continuing coverage of events in Ukraine and all over our broadcast region HERE.
"For the past eight months, the world has been subjected to a blitzkrieg of disinformation, distortions, and outright lies from Kremlin officials and the Russian media.
It's been a wild ride. It's been a baffling reinvention of reality. And its been a mass hallucination. No sooner is one Kremlin myth, lie, or distortion debunked than a dozen more pop up in its place.
But there's a method to this madness. And it happens to be one of the strongest weapons in the Russian arsenal...."
Lively and insightful discussion on this week's Power Vertical Podcast, hosted as always by Brian Whitmore, of the "weaponization" of information by Russia, and its implications:
Podcast: The Kremlin's Mind Bombs
