Act I: The Initial Four-Theatre Assault (24 February-6 April) The chronology of the conflict splits up rather naturally into four phases. I’ve shown where railway lines from the different map plates connect by the maroon arrows, and annotated in Latin script the names of key cities shown in Cyrillic on the Russian maps. This is a composite of maps of Eastern and North-Eastern Ukraine and maps of some adjoining portions of Russia. Note one conspicuous feature: there actually aren’t that many available connections between Russia and Ukraine. I assembled it from the excellent personal railroad site of Yuri Popov, a physics instructor at the University of Michigan, to display the rail connections from Russia to Eastern and North-Eastern Ukraine. The map below reproduces the one shown in Prologue, and will be needed for reference several times in what follows. That is the story to which we turn next, as we take up a chronology of the war. As we will see, they implemented a program of deception that paid dividends to a degree at least matching the spectacular successes that the British, and, later, the Western Allies, achieved in WWII. The UA and the Ukrainian government have, by necessity, employed a weapon that weaker parties traditionally turn to in wartime: deception. Part 1, Prologue, set up some necessary scenery for the drama that follows, and ended like this:
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