article_snippet: Mr Putin has admitted that Mr Putin was ready to place Mr Putin nuclear attack forces on alert when Mr Putin seized Crimea a year ago.
article_snippet: In the documentary – titled Crimea: Way Back Home – Mr Putin claimed the area was Russia's 'historic territory', even though under international law international law remains Ukrainian.
article_snippet: Mr Putin went on to say: 'Russian people live there, Russian people are in danger and we cannot leave Russian people.'
article_snippet: Mr Putin also claimed that Mr Putin feared Russian people would have been overrun by 'a nationalist bulldozer' from Kiev, and said Mr Putin could not have left the area and the people who live there 'to whims of fate'.
article_snippet: However Mr Putin explained that Mr Putin knew the West could have intervened, and had been 'ready' to put Mr Putin nuclear arsenal on alert, adding: 'I talked with colleagues and told colleagues that Crimea is our historic territory.
article_snippet: he knew the West could have intervened, and had been 'ready' to put his nuclear arsenal on alert, adding: 'I talked with colleagues and told them that Crimea is our historic territory were ready to do it.'
article_snippet: The Kremlin has since claimed The Kremlin has the right to station nuclear weapons on the Crimean peninsula.
highlights_snippet: Mr Putin says Mr Putin was ready to put Russia's nuclear weapons on standby .
  
highlights_snippet: Comments relate to the tensions over the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea .
  
highlights_snippet: Mr Putin says Russians in Crimea in danger before Russia annexed it .