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Russia Was ‘Ready’ to Use Nukes to Conquer Crimea, Mysteriously Missing Putin Says in Documentary
The Blaze is reporting the now missing Vladimir Putin, had said in a video released on Sunday, that Russia was ready to bring on the nuclear weapons into a state of Readiness, over the pressure caused from Crimea Peninsula and the overthrow of the Ukraine President.
Russia was ready to bring its nuclear weapons into a state of alert during last year’s tensions over the Crimean Peninsula and the overthrow of Ukraine’s president, a still-missing President Vladimir Putin said in remarks aired on Sunday.
Putin’s comments, in a documentary being shown on state TV, highlight the extent to which alarm spread in Russia in the weeks following Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s ouster in February 2014 after months of street protests that turned increasingly violent.
After Yanukovych fled Kiev, eventually surfacing in Russia, separatist sentiment soared in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula dominated by ethnic Russians. Russian forces took control of Ukrainian military facilities on the peninsula and a referendum on secession was hastily called. The referendum, which was widely denounced in the West as illegitimate, reportedly brought overwhelming support for secession. Russia annexed Crimea on March 19, 2014.
