Putin orders troops into Ukraine
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President Vladimir Putin has deployed “peacekeeping” troops into Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions just one day after Russia publicly recognised the republics as independent
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Territory held by Russian-backed separatists

“Line of contact” between separatists and Ukrainian armed forces
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RUSSIA
Kiev
UKRAINE
Crimea
Annexed in 2014
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Dnipro
River Dnieper
RUSSIA
LUHANSK REGION
Melitopol 
Mariupol 
Berdyansk
Sea of Azov
50km 30 miles
Luhansk People’s Republic
Luhansk
Kramatorsk
DONETSK REGION
Zaporozhye
UKRAINE 
Rostov-on-Don
Donetsk
Donetsk People’s Republic

Feb 21: Convoys of tanks reported entering Ukraine

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Sources: UPI, Stratfor
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