nik connelly takes look the of them occupy ukrainian territory is not on our agenda . we don't plan to force anyone to do anything with violence with you. those were vladimir putin's words on february, the 24th announcing start of russia's invasion. 7 months later, russia's president has unleashed violence in the scale, not seen in europe since world war 2. and he's now annexing large swathes of ukrainian territory. russia's troops another near the front lines, the guns in hand. they've also been persuading ukrainians to vote and sham referendums. on joining the russian federation, vladimir putin has a long question, the legitimacy of ukraine's boarders complaining that russia had been robbed, went boundaries withdrawn. if that wasn't enough, he went on to claim that ukraine was a creation of the soviet era or one built on historic russian lands. putin began re drawing the map in crimea in 2014, after lightning military takeover. russia held referendum that not even its closest allies have recognized, but for russia's president, it was enough to back up his claims to b