"Putin wants to pocket Crimea, nothing else": Hollande says new sanctions against Russia possible

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He also commented on the actions of the Russian President in respect of Ukraine.

"I believe Putin's interest is to demonstrate sagacity, to calm the game down, pocket that what he has already taken [Crimea], and there’s nothing else to do there [in Ukraine]," Hollande told the book’s authors. "If he does anything else there, more sanctions will come, arms will be supplied to Ukraine, and it will join NATO," said the French president.

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