Special "polite" people emerged in Crimea during referendum - Peskov
MOSCOW. April 18 (interfax) - Vladimir Putin was not being untruthful when he first said that were no Russian troops in Crimea, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"The truth is in juxtaposing the temporal parameters of what happened: when the president was giving explanations for the first time, he was giving his assessment of what was going on in Ukraine, and of the situation in Crimea, in particular. It was a few days, if a not a week, before the referendum, even more than a week. At the time the president acknowledged the fact that there was no one there (no Russian troops). But at the time of the referendum, as Putin said yesterday, security at the referendum was in fact provided by special people. Polite people," Peskov said on the Sunday Night With Sergei Solovyov television program.
