The latest situation map from Ukrainian authorities:
The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council claims that more trucks filled with who-knows-what have entered illegally from Russia:
Valuable summary of what we know so far about the Mistral-class warship's possible delivery to Russia and questions over how it's currently flagged.
Here's the latest twist, courtesy of The Interpreter:
There was even more consternation when the AIS signal for the ship simply went silent for more than 15 hours -- no one could understand what this meant.
Finally, No Mistrals for Putin and other bloggers later reported that the AIS was back to showing the French flag.
We checked, and sure enough it was back to the French flag on November 16...
It is really as if the Kremlin were interested merely in baiting the media and Putin's critics. He flees the summit early, and the Russian president's twitter feed in English opts for this:
Worth watching this:
There is definitely a "retouched" look to this. Just November light in Kyiv, I guess.