As usual, no link is provided for this information in your postings.
"Putin admits ordering theft of Crimea from Ukraine... Putin substantiated it himself"
I can only assume you are referring to the trailer shown on Russia 1 the other night of an upcoming documentary. The full interview does not appear to be available yet. Below I have provided full links to original, machine translated and proper translations of the information in question. Although my Russian is only basic, I am able to confirm the Russian transcript as being accurate (As can anyone else with the information I have provided below):
Trailer of yet to be released documentary interview:
Transcript of trailer in Russian:
"Я пригласил в Кремль руководителей наших специальных служб, министерства обороны, поставил перед ними задачу спасти жизнь президента Украины, его просто уничтожили бы… Там были поставлены крупнокалиберные пулеметы, чтобы долго не разговаривать. Мы приготовились вынимать его прямо из Донецка, по суше, по морю и с воздуха… Это было между 22-м и 23-м, мы закончили около 7 часов утра. И, расставаясь, я всем коллегам сказал: мы вынуждены начать работу по возврату Крыма в состав России"
Machine translation:
"I'm invited to the Kremlin leaders of our special services, the Ministry of Defence, set them the task to save the life of President of Ukraine, it just would have destroyed" - says the head of state. "There have been put heavy machine guns to long talk. We are ready to remove it straight out of Donetsk, by land, by sea and by air. It was between the 22 th and 23 th, we ended up at about 7 am. And parting, I have all of my colleagues said, we have to start working on the return of the Crimea to Russia ", - said Putin.
Proper Translation:
"I invited the leaders of our special services and the defence ministry to the Kremlin and set them the task of saving the life of the president of Ukraine, who would simply have been liquidated." said the Head of State.
“Heavy-calibre machine guns were placed there to avoid talking too much. We got ready to take him straight out of Donetsk, by land, sea and air. It was between the 22nd and the 23rd and we finished at about 7AM. In parting, I said to all of my colleagues, we have to start working on the return of Crimea to Russia.", - said Putin
Only the last sentence of the trailer is related to Crimea. Putin does not mention anything about
"taking Crimea from Ukraine", but instead uses the phrase
"start working on the return of Crimea to Russia." Given the overwhelming Russian demographic in Crimea,
statements from the Crimean Parliament speaker at the time and
International law regarding self-determination, starting work on such a possibility would be prudent. However, it was the Crimean parliament which made the Declaration of Independence (
Original Source,
translated source) on the 11th of March 2014, and later it was the Crimean parliament again which organised the referendum as stipulated by the declaration. Only after the referendum and in requesting the Russian Government, did the Russian Government accept the will of the people and integrate Crimea via an accession treaty signed by representatives (
Original Source,
translated source).
Note: I was going to reply to the thread you started the other day containing some of the most bizarre MSM conspiracy theories I've seen yet, but the moderators removed your post before I had a chance. However, see the below picture for evidence of President Putin
"directly" (You emphasised) shooting down MH17:
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Don't worry, it's legit. Brought to you by the same US Government which brought us the Gulf of Tonkin and Iraq WMD's.
Latest word on conspiracy crank MSM news though is that the p
eople involved in shooting MH17 down have been executed.
Perhaps SGT Schumann was one of them???
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Good old Shoei shall again post the list of russia lovers who support
