Report documents rights abuses; Kremlin ‘greatest security challenge,’ says Atlantic Council’s Herbst
The apparent US indifference toward the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in February 2014 amounts to giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a green light to commit similar acts of aggression against other countries, panelists warned during a March 6 conference at the Atlantic Council. “The Obama administration refuses to call what Putin is doing an invasion. They use the word incursion,” said John E. Herbst, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. Herbst, who served as the US Ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006, criticized current …read more
Source: Atlantic Council
