US says its diplomats are out of Ukraine after US special ops planes tracked near Polish border

A pair of U.S. Air Force MC-130J Commando II special operations tanker-transport aircraft, along with a pair of the CV-22B Osprey special operations tilt-rotors, were tracked flying near Poland’s border with Ukraine this evening. It’s unclear, but there are indications that the CV-22Bs may have flown into Ukraine before the entire force left the area. These flights were being openly broadcast via the aircraft’s ADS-B transponders and fully trackable online using common flight tracking software.

This all came amid a now-confirmed report from Bloomberg News that personnel assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, have been withdrawn from Ukraine, at least for the time being, and are now in neighboring Poland, in light of new security concerns. The Embassy’s operations had already been relocated from the capital Kyiv to Lviv, situated some 40 miles from the Polish-Ukriaina border, over fears of an imminent Russian invasion. Russia deployed troops into areas of eastern Ukraine today following its recognition of two breakaway republics there as independent nations, the latest in a string of worrisome developments that you can read more about in The War Zone‘s latest report on this crisis.

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