MOSCOW. March 8 (Interfax) - Russia's Rossiya 1 television on Sunday night ran a trailer of a film in which President Vladimir Putin describes the evacuation of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from his country a year ago and preparations for the incorporation of Crimea into Russia.

"I invited the chiefs of our special services and the Ministry of Defense to the Kremlin and set them the task of saving the life of the president of Ukraine - he would just have been killed," Putin says in Andrei Kondrashov's movie "Homeward Trip," in part.

"Heavy machineguns were mounted there to avoid talking too much. We got ready to get him right out of Donetsk by land, by sea or by air