A new documentary, aired on Russian state TV,... is showing President Vladimir Putin being more aggressive on Crimea and Ukraine, contrary to Moscow's articulated stance thus far.<br />In the piece titled, "The Path to the Motherland"... President Putin says he had in fact *ordered Crimea's annexation... weeks before the region held a referendum.<br />In Sunday's run of the documentary, the Russian leader says he was ready to put *nuclear weapons on standby during the escalating tensions over Crimea and Ukraine... in both cases, explaining that the lives of Russians and Moscow-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych... were under threat.<br />President Putin himself, meanwhile, has been out of the public eye... since cancelling a summit meeting with his Belarusian and Kazakh counterparts last week... sparking rumors that he was ill... or out of the country.
