VIDEO Russia's War Against Ukraine

Ukraine Today: European Union foreign ministers to condemn Crimea annexation; Russia seized Ukrainian peninsula a year ago (VIDEO)

Ukraine’s Interfax news agency reports that a statement reiterating the bloc’s refusal to recognize Russia’s seizure of the Black Sea Peninsula will be issued, a year after the Kremlin organised a fig leaf referendum to cement its control over the region.

Despite President Vladimir Putin’s initial staunch denials of any involvement in the occupation, he later confessed after the referendum that Russian military forces had indeed been used to seize the Ukrainian peninsula.