Russia was ready to bring its nuclear weapons into a state of alert during last year's tensions over the Crimean Peninsula, President Vladimir Putin says. Putin has also expanded on a previous admission that the well-armed forces in unmarked uniforms who took control of Ukrainian military facilities in Crimea were Russian soldiers.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Sky News: Putin was ‘ready’ to bring nukes to Crimea
Pro-Russian Crimeans in Sevastopol celebrate a Kremlin-orchestrated March 16, 2014 referendum that paved the way for Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
