Ukraine crisis: Putin shows who is boss in Crimea Wednesday August 19th, 2015 at 2:18 PM
Ukraine crisis: Putin shows who is boss in Crimea Wednesday August 19 th , 2015 at 2:18 PM BBC News - Home 1 Share It was a typical display by Russia's action-man President, Vladimir Putin, clambering into a mini submarine and plunging to the depths of the Black Sea. The waves first washed over his glass bubble, then swallowed it, with underwater cameras capturing the slow slide down. Officially, the dive was designed to view an ancient shipwreck on the seabed. But it was also about demonstrating who is boss here now. Vladimir Putin is spending three days in Crimea with a whole delegation of senior Russian politicians and business figures in tow. Kiev has condemned the visit as an attempt to whip up tensions, and underlined that Crimea's only possible future was back with Ukraine. So when Vladimir Putin docked for a moment in Sevastopol, I put that point to him. "The future of Crimea was determined by the people wh