In early March, soldiers with automatic rifles, ski masks and dark-green uniforms without insignias appeared at key points throughout the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. Ukraine accused Russia of infiltrating its country for a takeover, and foreign diplomats including Secretary of State John Kerry demanded answers from Moscow as the world threatened to impose sanctions.
USA Today: Putin stymies West with subterfuge
Pro-Russian activists wave a Russian flag and shout slogans during a rally near a razor wire-topped barricade outside the regional government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 13, 2014.
