Putin: Russia could activate nuclear weapons because of CrimeaIn the spring of 2014, if the events in Crimea were not favorable to Russia, the Russian leadership could enter Russia's nuclear forces into a state of readiness, president Vladimir Putin said in a documentary film by Andrei Kondrashov "Crimea. The path to the Motherland.""We were done by about 7. And, I must say, I told all my counterparts (they were four): The situation in Ukraine is such that we have to begin working on returning of Crimea into Russia, as we cannot abandon that territory and people living there into the hands of the nationalists," Itar Tass quotes Putin as saying.
In the spring of 2014, if the events in Crimea were not favorable to Russia, the Russian leadership could enter Russia's nuclear forces into a state of readiness, president Vladimir Putin said in a documentary film by Andrei Kondrashov "Crimea. The path to the Motherland."
"We were done by about 7. And, I must say, I told all my counterparts (they were four): The situation in Ukraine is such that we have to begin working on returning of Crimea into Russia, as we cannot abandon that territory and people living there into the hands of the nationalists," Itar Tass quotes Putin as saying.
