"It was Putin's bad signal." Slovenia's President acknowledged that the EU has reacted not enough hard to occupy Crimea

Slovenia President Broth Pakhor believes that European countries have not responded hard to Vladimir Putin's aggression in 2014, when the Russian Federation invaded Ukrainian Crimea. "It was a bad signal to President Putin that he can do whatever he wants with minor consequences for his actions," Pakhore said in an anadolu interview.

The President noted that Western countries did not want to repeat the mistakes, so on February 24 on the day of a full -scale invasion, a "hard package of sanctions" was approved. Video Day Pakhore is convinced that Putin did not expect such solidarity to European countries. The leader of Slovenia himself acknowledged that he was surprised and disappointed with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.