Putin trying to justify taking all of the Ukraine by force?
Via Mediaite:
An official representing Ukraine’s Crimean Tartar’s recently held a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin where he reportedly stressed that the integrity of the country of Ukraine must be maintained. He did not receive exactly the response he was looking for.
In a call with Mustafa Dzhemilev, the former head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tarter people, Putin reportedly dismissed his concern that a referendum scheduled to be held this weekend in Crimea, which would decide whether the territory should be annexed to Russia, would violate the terms of a 1994 treaty with Western nations guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty.
According to Dzhemilev, Putin also said that it was debatable as to whether Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, acquired in 1991, was even legal.
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