: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Putin Admits Pre-Referendum Takeover Plot


Russian President, Vladmir Putin, has admitted that he ordered the takeover of Crimea, weeks before the peninsula had a self-determination referendum.
Mr Putin had ordered that the returning of Crimea to Russia should begin, during an all-night meeting on February 22, 2014, after former Ukrainian President, Victor Yanukovych, was ousted.
This new revelation runs against Mr Putin’s claim in April last year that he only took his final decision about Crimea after opinion polls, revealed that 80 per cent of Crimeans wanted to join Russia.
The practically non-violent seizure of Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula which has an ethnic Russian majority and where …read more

Source: Channels Television

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