The Minister wrote an entire article devoted to the fourth anniversary of the occupation of the Ukrainian territories of the Russian Federation. Johnson writes that the supreme Russian leadership made the decision to annex the Crimea.

Putin himself was the initiator of the approval of the further actions of the Russian army and the FSB. In the propaganda film, the president of Russia personally said that he had decided to "help the Crimean people" three weeks before the so-called "referendum", which was held at the behest of Russian automatic rifles.

Russia has done everything to break all the foundations of international law, and Putin himself personally continued to fan the flames of the conflict by deploying troops in eastern Ukraine. The world community can not and will not tolerate such actions, sanctions will be extended until Moscow leaves the Crimea.

"We must never forget about the terrible consequences of that meeting late at night in the Kremlin," Johnson wrote in an epilogue to his work.

As reported in URA-Inform, earlier observers of the OSCE special monitoring mission confirmed information on the situation of Russian military equipment in eastern Ukraine.