PART 1 THE OCCUPATION OF CRIMEA: CHRONICLE OF SEIZURE Pictured: A former Berkut policeman at a roadblock at the entrance to Crimea will inform army and unit commanders about to which regions and which tasks to be executed by troops (forces) after the opening of corresponding packages.’ At the entry point to Crimea, the R rst roadblocks appeared (near the town of Ar- myansk and Chongar settlement) under the control of the ‘little green men’ and rep- resentatives of the Berkut, special unit of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal AT airs. This ‘Berkut’ unit was disbanded after the death of civilians in Kyiv’s Maidan Square in February 2014. Furthermore, Ukrainian soldiers, journalists, and local residents repeatedly ob- served unauthorized movements by personnel of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. On the night of February 28, military trucks with unidentiR ed armed men blocked access to the airport ‘Belbek’, the international airport located at a military airdrome and serv- ing passengers in Sevastopol and other Crimean cities. On the same night, the territory of Simferopol international airport was raided by about 150 soldiers in heavy KamAZ trucks. In the morning, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal AT airs Arsen Avakov conR rmed that the ‘Belbek’ and Simferopol airports had been blocked by the Russian military. On March 1, 2014, Sergey Aksyonov arbitrarily subordinated Crimean security agen- cies to himself and appealed to Russian president Vladimir Putin for assistance. Ak- 10