Yanukovych is gone
Stakes · Whether you seize Crimea with unmarked troops, overt forces, or limit yourself to fleet diplomacy while Kyiv reorganises.
It is late February 2014. Viktor Yanukovych has left Kyiv. Protesters control the capital. Crimea’s parliament and local elites panic about Ukrainian nationalism and language policy.
Your options are already moving on the ground. Covert: unmarked soldiers take the airport and assembly buildings. Overt: marines in uniform cross the Kerch Strait. Diplomatic: insist on the fleet lease and political autonomy without annexation — for now.
Western capitals are disoriented. The has not met on your timetable yet.
Constraints of the office here
- — The **21–22 February** agreement in Kyiv collapsed when Yanukovych fled.
- — Crimea’s legislature is friendlier to Moscow than Kyiv’s new street government.
- — The [[Black Sea Fleet]] sits in Sevastopol under a lease Ukraine may revisit.
Options · keys 1–3