Putin on Tuesday defended Russias actions in Crimea, a strategic - TopicsExpress



          

Putin on Tuesday defended Russias actions in Crimea, a strategic Black Sea peninsula that is part of Ukraine but used to be Russian territory, and said he would use force only as a last resort. At his first news conference since the crisis began, Putin said on Tuesday that Russia reserved the right to use all options to protect compatriots who were living in terror in Ukraine but that force was not needed for now. In comments ridiculed by US officials, Putin denied Russian armed forces were directly engaged in the bloodless seizure of Crimea, claiming that the uniformed troops without national insignia were local self-defence forces.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:50:27 +0000

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