Vladimir Putin Oversees West To Stay Clear Of Russia’s ‘Red Lines’ Epic Naval Drills

Vladimir Putin Oversees West To Stay Clear Of Russia’s ‘Red Lines’. The Russian military has conducted massive drills in Crimea involving dozens of navy ships, hundreds of warplanes and thousands of troops in a show of force amid tensions with Ukraine. The manoeuvres were described as the largest since Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and threw its weight behind separatist insurgents in eastern Ukraine.