Putin Must Move Back Troops From Ukraine Boarder - Obama

The United State President, Mr  Barack Obama has on Friday said, Putin must "move back" the Russian troops from the Ukraine border and start negotiating saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to assemble forces on the Ukrainian border may "simply be an effort to intimidate Ukraine, or it may be that they've got additional plans."


Speaking with CBS News, Obama said although estimation of the Russian troop vary vastly in numbers , but that "to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine" Russia should "move back those troops and begin negotiations directly with the Ukrainian government as well as the international community."

US President also said Putin had been "willing to show a deeply held grievance about what he considers to be the loss of the Great USSR," and the Russian leader should not "revert back to the kinds of practices that, you know, were so prevalent during the cold war". "I think there's a strong sense of Russian nationalism and a sense that somehow the west has taken advantage of Russia in the past and that he wants to in some fashion, you know, reverse that or make up for that," Obama said, referring to Putin.

"What I have repeatedly said is that he may be entirely misreading the west. He's certainly misreading American foreign policy," the US leader told CBS. "We have no interest in circling Russia and we have no interest in Ukraine beyond letting Ukrainian people make their own decisions about their own lives."