After a year of denying Russian encroachment on the Crimean peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted in a television interview that all along he did have a plan to take the region from Ukraine. The US mission to NATO outlined Putin’s narrative over the past year: Putin and Crimea: an evolution of views? You can be the judge. pic.twitter.com/5SJu7BcmZy — US Mission to NATO (@USNATO) March 19, 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin began telling his version of the events leading to the annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine almost a year ago. Here’s the play by …read more
Source: Business Insider