After Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian president Vladimir Putin wasn’t “going to go into Ukraine”, most media outlets seized on the fact that Putin illegally annexed Crimea, formerly a part of Ukraine, in 2014.
But the Russian leader has also been propping up a bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine for over two years—another fact that Trump seems unaware of.
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