In late February 2014, Russia committed a crime many thought unimaginable for the 21st century. While the world’s attention was on the closing of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, masked men in unmarked green uniforms began to infiltrate my country’s Crimean peninsula. These “Little Green Men,” as the world labelled them, were sent by the Kremlin with heavy arms in trucks with no numbers, wearing uniforms without insignia, to quietly and illegally occupy and annex territory that belongs to sovereign Ukraine.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Armed Russian forces arrest Ukrainian army officers during an operation in Simferopol on March 18, 2014.
