Putin is now admitting that he lied

[ML]

How is this going to be spun by the low life Russian Putin lovers?  Let me guess . . . Putin has the right to lie.

After the Crimean land grab, Russia's story around the year-old events took an evolutionary leap.

It started off denying any military involvement in Ukraine, insisting that it was the people of Crimea who decided on their future. After the secessionist referendum on March 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin shifted his views, and said that Russian soldiers backed Crimean self-defense units to prevent a conflict.

But most recently, Putin revealed even more details of his military operation in Crimea, admitting in a preview for an upcoming documentary that that it was all carefully planned ahead of time.

The documentary, which is called “Crimea: The Road Back to the Motherland," will be shown on Russian state-owned Rossiya-1 TV channel on March 15, at 9 p.m. Kyiv time. In the meantime, Ukraine is planning to send the trailer to the International Criminal Court, according to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Putin said that he personally oversaw the planning of the takeover of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. At the same time, international think tanks are coming up with their own research on Russian involvement in Crimea. The British Royal United Services Institute said in its report on March 10 that the Kremlin had been preparing its military operations in Ukraine methodically and extensively.

During a press conference on March 4, 2014, Putin said that “there were local Crimean self-defense groups" and Russia didn't take part in their training. He assured journalists that Russian troops could have been deployed to Crimea to protect the citizens only if they were “in danger" and Russia had no plans to annex the peninsula.

Putin changed his story just a month later. “Our soldiers were standing behind the Crimean self-defense units," Putin said during a press conference in April. “They conducted themselves very properly, firmly and professionally. It was the only way possible to guarantee that the referendum will be free and fair."

But in his latest interview to Rossiya-1, Putin said that Russia planned a special operation on returning Crimea long before the referendum was held. He talked about a specific planning event that went on until the early morning of Feb. 23, 2014, when he told his special services that they “have to start the work on return of Crimea to Russia."

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/putins-narrative-on-crimea-annexation-takes-an-evolutionary-leap-383183.html

[southernX]

ML ,

while i agree this clearly demonstrates the sheer ability of mr putin to lie and lie to anyone ,at any level

im also dam sure his supporters who are here and everywhere will spin it as a non lie , while aplauding his ability to smugly pull it off

time may pass , but very little will change for his followers
SX

[mendeleyev]

It is part of a pattern of deceit. He did the same in Georgia, at first pointing the finger at the Georgians and claiming that Russia only moved in to protect ethnic Russians. Odd however, the Kremlin invited foreign and domestic journalists to the scene just days prior, saying that it was for observing exercises.

Later, in the 2012 presidential campaign he was openly declaring that the Georgian invasion had been in the works and that it was preplanned for months. The reason: supposedly the FSB had uncovered Georgian plots to sent Muslim terrorists to the coming Olympics and he claimed that Georgia was using Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian republic literally under the thumb of Russian troops, as a staging ground for terror attacks in Sochi.

Quite a stretch considering that Georgia is overwhelmingly Christian with only a peaceful Muslim minority, and Abkhazia was virtually controlled by the Russian army.