Vladimir Putin sought to ease tensions after Ukraine warned of a possible “full-scale” invasion by Russia, even as he convened a meeting in Crimea to demand heightened security measures on the peninsula he annexed in 2014.
It’s “obvious” that Ukraine carried out an attack in Crimea because it “doesn’t want to, or can’t for whatever reason, fulfill” a 2015 cease-fire agreement to resolve the conflict with separatists in the country’s east, Putin said at the meeting of the Russian Security Council in the port city of Sevastopol Friday.
Ukraine had acted provocatively, though he hoped “that it won’t be the final choice …read more
Source: National Post
