Out-and-out invasion

Here's what happens in a world without a unified and resolute West, led by the United States of America:

The Russians moved deployed tanks, howitzer artillary systems and trucks into Eastern Ukraine.
Yahoo reported:

A column of 32 tanks, 16 howitzer artillery systems and trucks carrying ammunition and fighters has crossed into eastern Ukraine from Russia, the Kiev military said on Friday.

“The deployment continues of military equipment and Russian mercenaries to the front lines,” spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in a televised briefing referring to Thursday’s cross-border incursion.

The report of a new Russian movement of armor across the border follows a charge on Thursday by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine that Kiev government forces had launched a new offensive – which Kiev immediately denied.

Filling the vacuum.