In February 2014, similar speeches and military maneuvers provided cover for Crimean volunteer militias to seize the peninsula, then still controlled by Ukraine, only to reveal they were in fact Russian special forces launching a military occupation.
在2014年2月，类似的言论和军事演习为克里米亚志愿民兵抢占该半岛提供了掩护，当时克里米亚半岛仍归乌克兰控制，结果只表明这些民兵实际上是俄罗斯发动军事占领的特种部队。