Obama says Putin ‘not fooling anybody’ over Ukraine (via AFP)

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said Russia was not “fooling anybody” over the crisis in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin denied Russian forces were operating on the flashpoint Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. In a show of support for the new interim…

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