Yanukovych has made it to Moscow and has issued a statement denouncing the interim government and saying he never issued shoot orders. Moscow apparently is none too happy with him and considers the former president a coward for running away
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BBC/AFP have been able to capture pictures of the soldiers that have seized the airports and are manning the blockades. They really don't look like they are an civilian and aren't wearing any military insignia. Looks awfully well equipped and trained though. Ukraine might have a point of accusing Russia of slipping in naval troops under the guise of Ukrainian Crimean "civilian militias"
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Analysts insist this is a regular army unit, from who they don't know
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Nobody yet knows the identities of the armed men who seized control of Simferopol airport.
But their equipment, their vehicles and their behaviour all signal that this is a trained military unit, not a rag-tag group of pro-Russian loyalists.
"These men look like a formed and organised body of troops. They appear to be disciplined, confident and uniformly dressed and equipped," says Brigadier Ben Barry, a land warfare expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
"Irregular militia may obtain bits of official kit but they tend to look like a military jumble sale."
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Apparently a squadron of attack helicopters streaming out of Russia flying towards the Crimea.