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Putin: Russia can use all means in Ukraine

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PUTINPutin said to reporters at his suburban Moscow residence in a briefing broadcast live on state television “We reserve the right to use all means to protect”. But he said there was currently “no need” to send troops into Ukraine, comments that appeared to reassure financial markets which have been on edge over fears of an armed conflict on the eastern edge of the European Union.

“There can only be one assessment of what happened in Kiev and Ukraine as a whole — this was an anti-constitutional takeover and armed seizure of power,” he added.

Putin said that deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych had no political future but asserted he was legally still head of state.

“I think that he has no political future. And I told him this,” Putin said in comments broadcast on state television, adding that Russia had offered sanctuary to Yanukovych for humanitarian reasons. He said earlier that Yanukovych was, however, still the “sole legitimate president of Ukraine”.

‘No Russian forces operating in Crimea’

Putin denied that Russian forces were operating in Crimea, saying that only “local forces of self-defence” were surrounding Ukrainian military bases in the region.

05.03.2014
SOURCE: MEDIA

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