December 17, 2015 (USA TODAY) After
months of denials, Russian President Vladimir
Putin admitted for the first
time Thursday that his country’s military is operating in separatist-held eastern
Ukraine. "We never said there were no people there who were carrying out
certain tasks," Putin said during his annual end-of-year news conference
in Moscow. Putin said Russia had no regular troop presence in eastern Ukraine
but, in response to a question about Russian servicemen detained and injured in
the fighting, he admitted that "certain matters, including in the military
area" were being performed.
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