Financial Times: Vladimir Putin came out on Tuesday with a classic performance: clever, tough, sardonic and deeply cynical.

Self-assured as ever, and showing less sign of strain over recent events than some western counterparts, Mr Putin had his own narrative.

Ukraine, he said, had witnessed an “unconstitutional seizure of power” by western-backed extremists, some of them wearing “armbands with swastikas”.

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