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Putin Describes Secret Meeting to Take Crimea


MOSCOW— Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea — the Black Sea region Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March.
In a trailer for an upcoming documentary on state-owned television aired late Sunday, Putin said that he met with security officials in February to make plans for saving Ukraine’s then-President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled power after months of pro-European protests in the Ukrainian capital.
Putin said that after the meeting he told the security chiefs that they would be “obliged to start working to return Crimea to Russia.”
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Source: The Epoch Times

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