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AP Analysis: Putin cornered over Ukraine

By Vladimir Isachenkov
Published July 31, 2014 4:13pm ET
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AP Analysis: Putin cornered over Ukraine
Russian President speaks during a meeting outside the Tzar Pushka ( Tzar Cannon) in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Putin on Thursday presented state awards to cosmonauts, lawmakers, journalists and others. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service) | Mikhail Klimentyev

MOSCOW (AP) — For Russian President Vladimir Putin, there are few options left in the Ukraine crisis and they all look bad.

He is caught between a determined West demanding that he disavow the pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine and increasingly assertive nationalists at home urging him to champion the mutiny and send in the Russian army.

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