This morning has seen 3 new threads beginning with
Ukraine's "live-fire" exercises involving T-64B tanks. This was then followed by warnings from Russia of "consequences" of "unconditionally indulging radical elements" in Ukraine calling US financial aid "illegal" which was swiftly responded to by the State Department exclaiming it
"unacceptable" that Russian forces take matters into their own hands and "do not create the right environment for diplomacy." Not positive...
Ukraine did its own sabre-rattling:
*T-64B TANKS INVOLVED IN EXERCISE, LIVE-FIRE TRAINING: MINISTRY
The Russians are not happy