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Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on August 19 a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see "common sense" when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula.

Two years after Russian troops seized the peninsula, it is again the focus of international tension, after the Russian president accused Kyiv last week of sending saboteurs who clashed with Russian troops.

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