Elite Ukrainian Units performing poorly...

Thanks for the link Paralus!

via Yahoo.com

KRAMATORSK/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Separatists flew the Russian flag on armored vehicles taken from the Ukrainian army on Wednesday, humiliating a Kiev government operation to recapture eastern towns controlled by pro-Moscow partisans.
Six armored personnel carriers were driven into the rebel-held town of Slaviansk to waves and shouts of "Russia! Russia!". It was not immediately clear whether they had been captured by rebels or handed over to them by Ukrainian deserters.
Another 15 armored troop carriers full of paratroops were surrounded and halted by a pro-Russian crowd at a town near an airbase. They were allowed to retreat only after the soldiers handed the firing pins from their rifles to a rebel commander.
The military setback leaves Kiev looking weak on the eve of a peace conference on Thursday, when its foreign minister will meet his Russian, U.S. and European counterparts in Geneva.
Moscow has responded to the overthrow of its ally Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich in February by announcing its right to intervene militarily to protect Russian speakers across the former Soviet Union, a new doctrine that has overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy.

During the Cold War, Soviet and Soviet Bloc forces that were Airborne, or Naval Infantry were designated as "Guards" units. This indicated that they were the most politically reliable, elite and given the most dangerous or politically sensitive missions.

To see a Company's worth of APCs stopped by a crowd and then to have themselves DISARMED by a rebel commander tells me everything I need to know.

Eastern Ukraine is gone.

Its the new Western border of Russia.