Sarmatian
02-28-2014, 03:41 AM
The voice on the phone that persuaded President Yanukovych to give ground and end the bloodshed in Kiev last week belonged to an unexpected peacemaker: Vladimir Putin.
Russia’s involvement in Ukraine’s three-month political crisis has often been depicted as a spoiling role, but, according to Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, it was President Putin’s intervention that proved decisive when the tension was at its height.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4016262.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_02_25
Russia’s involvement in Ukraine’s three-month political crisis has often been depicted as a spoiling role, but, according to Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, it was President Putin’s intervention that proved decisive when the tension was at its height.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4016262.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_02_25