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Uniforms. and they came to be known as the littlee green men. some of them stormed crimea's regionalto parliament, they barricaded themselves inside and they raised the russian flag overde the building. the next day, more of these green uniformed men seized airports in crimea. within a couple of week, the whole of crimea was under the control of these little green men. they were clearly pro-russian. spokeey russian. and they were heavily armed with russian weapons. but russian president vladimir putin insisted they were not russian troops. he said they were local self-defense forces, acting on...

So i wonder what the reaction to that in ukraine was, and i mean is that, you know, the intent of maybe dropping the country's bid to join the alliance, what kind of reaction do people on the ground have to that? >> i think it was just the opposite. so one of his, when this country has been under a tremendous amount ofry pressure and when you're under pressure, every statement is parsed and there has never been this much attention focused on ukraine except for when zelensky watt at the center of another massive point of interest with the phone call with donald trump. and that factors into a de...

0 story. >> great story. great reporting. thank you. >> that is "all in" on this monday night the rachel maddow show with guest host ale good evening, alex. >> thank you, chris. happy valentine's day, my friend. >> to you as well. >> my heart is warm. >>fr mine, too. and thanks to all of you at us this hour.ng it was february 2014, the autocratic pro-russian ruler of ukraine had just fled the country after being forcedle ou of officeco by pro-democracy street protests. in that confusing aftermath, soldiers began appearing in the southernld ukrainian province o crimea. theai soldiers had no i...