The editor of a major Russian investigative paper claims to have a leaked Kremlin strategy paper that outlined the entire 2014 invasion of Ukraine. Paper was allegedly prepared between Feb 4 and 15th, 2014 a full week prior to Yanukovich fled Ukraine (speaking of which, he hasn't been heard from since has he?). Probably he'll be disappeared soon if he ends up getting this document out.
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The editor of a leading independent Russian newspaper says he plans this week to publish what purports to be an official Kremlin strategy document outlining Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitri Muratov said the document appears to have been prepared weeks before Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from office in February 2014, following weeks of anti-government protests in Kyiv.
Muratov's disclosure came in an interview with Moscow's Ekho Moskvy radio. He did not reveal how the document was obtained, but said he is confident it is authentic.
Muratov quotes the 2014 document as saying Moscow was obliged to intervene in Ukraine to protect against the possible loss of the Ukrainian market for Russia's natural gas. He said the document also noted the risks to the Russian economy and to western European consumers, if Moscow were to lose control of pipelines carrying natural gas through Ukraine to Western markets.
The editor also said evidence shows the strategy document was prepared between February 4 and February 15, 2014. Yanukovych did not abandon the presidency and flee to Russia until February 22.
Novaya Gazeta, founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, is renowned for its aggressive investigations of corruption within the Kremlin, and has been nominated for a 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. Six of its journalists have been killed since 2001, including Kremlin critic Anna Politskovskaya, who was shot dead at point blank range in 2006 after publishing reports critical of the Kremlin for Russian military actions in Chechnya.
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http://www.voanews.com/content/ukrai...s/2653786.html
https://news.vice.com/article/russia...raine-invasion
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10069203.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/wo...tion.html?_r=0
Original Russian for any native speakers
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/67389.html