

The 454th quickly established a forward airbase at the Vybor airport following the CDF's evacuation. Albeit reluctant, the CDF are forced to co-operate with the Russian military and allow their forces to monitor their movements. Russian troops assume their positions as peacekeepers in the region following the U.S. The USMC deployment in Chernarus is forced to be cut short following a UN Security Council meeting which authorises the deployment of Russian forces into the country instead. The Chernarussian National Party are listed as the prime suspects behind the bombing by the Russian government, and are declared to be an extremist group while blaming the Americans for causing more instability in the region and encouraging the spread of terrorism to Russia.

Russian forces step foot onto Chernarussian soil unopposed. Anonymous Russian military official quoted by the Russian Voice Radio network after the Moscow bombingsīarely a week after ChDKZ forces are forced to withdraw to the northern parts of the country by U.S.-led forces, a bomb goes off at Red Square in Moscow which kills fifty and critically injures more than two hundred people.
