6:21 p.m. CT: An RC-135 -- Rivet Joint -- has just departed Souda Bay on the north side of Crete (Greece) headed north, obviously to Ukraine theater of operations. Call sign: Homer-Five-One.
Later, 3:17 a.m. CT, Friday morning, February 18, 2022: a significant increase in commercial air traffic over Ukraine, most of it in the west. An active Global Hawk; no River Joint.
