Tweets from Andrew Roth - New York times:
We came through checkpt on Kharkiv-Rostov highway, army guys were allowing al-jazeera to film them, access to city was open during operation
City center is calm, no sense that the army is about to roll on city hall.
Nobody knows how many dead in Slavyansk Doctors confirm some gunshot wounds but so far we’ve been thrown out of two hospitals and the morgue
Heading toward Slavyansk via same army checkpoint I passed this morning. Most shooting reports in NW of city, that road is reportedly shut.
and so it Starts—look to see full scale fighting in Hours. Russian Bomber hitting Kiev— Dogfights in the air will silence the Ukrainian Air Force. Once the troops are involved anything can and will happen.