At the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine's Crimea and Donbas regions in the spring of 2014, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russia's Vladimir Putin to discuss the situation. She came away shocked, stating that Putin was living in “an alternate reality.” To Putin, NATO was the aggressor, an illegitimate neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv was murdering via crucifixion Russian speakers, a civil war was engulfing Ukraine, and Russia was providing no military assistance to those brave fighters of the two “separatist” republics, standing up to the Kyiv ultra-nationalists.
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