2026-08-26 · World | Deutsche Welle
🔮 When Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in 2014 about Russia's motives for annexing the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, and thus violating international law, he justified it by saying: "We could not allow NATO forces to eventually come to the land of Crimea and Sevastopol, the land of Russian military glory, and cardinally change the balance of forces in the Black Sea area." assertive