Adrian Karatnycky: Putin’s latest Crimean gambit

Curiously, it took Russia four full days after an alleged attack by Ukrainian special forces in Crimea to make a public statement about the event. On August 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin took to the airwaves to denounce "tactics of terrorism." He stated the alleged killings of a soldier and an FSB security agency operative "will not pass idly by," intimating a Russian military response, and he called on the United States and the European Union to rein in Kyiv.