Bombshell details about Russia’s occupation of Crimea and attempts to break off south-eastern Ukraine have now been made public as Ukrainian prosecutors shared previously unknown telephone intercepts depicting who appears to be Putin’s top advisor Sergei Glazyev orchestrating and financing the Russian occupation of Crimea and pro-Russian uprisings in south-eastern Ukraine. Particularly, they provide further evidence that Russia’s “Novorossiya” project was first and foremost an attempt to provide resources for the newly-occupied peninsula heavily dependent on Ukraine – as well as proving that the occupation was planned at least from 2010-2011.
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Alya Shandra: New details of Russian occupation of Crimea
A Russian national flag (L) and partly seen flag of Russian airborne forces (R) fly above a Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, near the Crimean capital Simferopol, on March 27, 2014.