Analysts: Russia unlikely to pull back in Crimea

By Julie Pace

Published March 5, 2014 4:48pm ET

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Analysts: Russia unlikely to pull back in Crimea — WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is unlikely to pull back its military forces in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, analysts and former Obama administration officials say, forcing the United States and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent President Vladimir Putin from making advances elsewhere in the former Soviet republic. It’s an unsettling scenario for […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is unlikely to pull back its military forces in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, analysts and former Obama administration officials say, forcing the United States and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent President Vladimir Putin from making advances elsewhere in the former Soviet republic.

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