MOSCOW (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia took over Crimea because it had to protect Crimeas mostly ethnic-Russian population after pro-Western Ukrainian nationalists came to power in Ukraine.In the latest preview of an upcoming documentary called Homeward bound on state-run Rossiya-1 television, Putin portrayed Russias military takeover and annexation of the Ukrainian province as a rescue mission.We were forced to start working on returning Crimea to Russia because we could not abandon this territory and the people who live there to the mercy of fate, to be crushed by nationalists, Putin said.Putin pinned the blame for …read more
Source: Dunya TV
