(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called acting authorities in Ukraine illegitimate, but said a military intervention in Russia's western neighbor still remains a final resort.
Last month's ouster of Putin's counterpart, Viktor Yanukovych, was "an anti-constitutional coup and a military seizure of power," the Russian president said in a statement carried by Russian Ria-Novosti News Agency toda
Russia deployed last week its troops to Ukraine's pro-Russian Crimean Peninsula and threatened a larger armed invasion to protect Russian nationals and speakers in the countr
"If mayhem breaks out in eastern Ukraine and people ask for help, Russia reserves the right to react, but this is a last resort," Putin said at a press conferenc
"It's a humanitarian mission, we don't aspire to enslave anyone." Putin also said that Yanukovych, who has fled to Russia, remains Ukraine's legitimate presiden
"The Ukrainian parliament is partly legitimate, but all other authorities aren't," he sai
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