Ukraine crisis: Putin is 'on the wrong side of history' says President Obama
President Barack Obama said on Monday night that
Russia was "on the wrong side of history” with its incursion into the
Crimean peninsula and said he was considering economic and diplomatic
options to punish it if it didn’t reverse course quickly.
"Over time this will be a costly proposition for Russia and now's the
time for them to consider whether they can serve their interests in a
way that resorts to diplomacy as opposed to force,” Mr Obama told
journalists in the Oval Office shortly before a long-scheduled meeting
with Benjami
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A Russian soldier keeps watch from an armoured car near a Ukrainian border post in Balaclava, Crimea (Baz Ratner)
FEARS of a military conflict over Crimea intensified last night when President
Vladimir Putin won the backing of parliament for his decision to send in
troops and Ukraine responded by putting its own forces on combat alert.
The escalation in the crisis came amid signs that violent unrest against the
new pro-western governme
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Russian soldiers took part in exercises in St Petersburg yesterdaySasha Mordovets/Getty Images
Russia’s strike into the Crimea threatened to spread across Ukraine last night
after demonstrators calling for autonomy from Kiev stormed local government
buildings in the East and South.
Chaotic scenes in Donetsk, where protesters in the stronghold of former
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