“Yes, I’m not hiding it, of course, this is a fact, we have never hidden it, our Armed Forces, frankly speaking, blocked the Armed Forces of Ukraine stationed in Crimea, but not in order to force someone to vote, this is impossible to do , but in order to prevent bloodshed, to give people the opportunity to express their own attitude to how they want to determine their future and the future of their children,” Putin said in an interview with ARD.