MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea — the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March.
In a trailer for an upcoming documentary, shown on state-owned television 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. “We got ready to get him right out of Donetsk by land, by sea or by air,” he said. “Heavy machine guns …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
