{"id":6659,"date":"2014-04-17T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2014\/04\/putin-declares-russia-is-justified-to.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T03:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T03:57:11","slug":"putin-declares-russia-is-justified-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2014\/04\/putin-declares-russia-is-justified-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin declares Russia is Justified to Use Force in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned during a live televised Q and A on<\/a> Thursday that he would send troops to protect the people of eastern Ukraine and that Kiev gave him just the visuals he needed to revive his faltering narrative about civilians under threat.<\/p>\n Vladimir Putin could not have picked a better day than Thursday, April 17, to hold his annual call-in show on Russian television. Two days earlier, Ukraine\u2019s government had sent its military to fight armed Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. <\/p>\n A couple of days ago there was clear evidence that Russian troops are in Eastern Ukraine<\/B><\/p>\n