CNN The Situation Room February 20, 2014 23:08:00
People of ukraine are able to make decisions for themselves about their future. >> reporter: russian president vladimir putin, the ukraine began government's primary backer, may truly hold ukraine's future had his hands. and for some, the outlook is grave. >> putin and the kremlin, yanukovych in the presidency of ukraine are kind of rewriting history and they're rewriting it in blood. >> reporter: strobe talbott, deputy secretary of state under bill clinton said the same is true in syria where russia's providing both weapons and diplomatic cover for the assad regime and beyond. >> putin is in ...