10
Apr
Unlike the West, Russia views the happenings in Ukraine as a crisis rather than an invasion or war. Ties between Moscow and Washington have disintegrated since Putin sent troops to Ukraine last year. Putin spoke a week after Moscow detained a US reporter and charged him with espionage, sparking outrage. “Relations between Russia and the United States, from which global security and stability directly depend, are going through a deep crisis,” Putin told the new US envoy as he swore in 17 ambassadors. He said US foreign policy “in the end led to the current Ukrainian crisis”. The longtime Russian…