Two months ago the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, warned his EU colleagues that after the Olympic Games in Sochi are over Russia intends to actively intrude in Ukrainian affairs.
Did he have intelligence about Russia’s plan to invade Ukraine?
The operation of the scale unfolding in Crimea must have taken several weeks to prepare.
But as things quietened down in Ukraine over the past week and the transitional government slowly gained control over the country, few gave ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.