Interview: Yanukovych Decries Crimea A “Tragedy”

AM 820 News anchor Roger P. Schulman spoke to ABC News correspondent Tom Rivers about the Ukraine crisis.

In his first interview since fleeing to Russia, Ukraine’s ousted president said Wednesday that he was “wrong” to have invited Russian troops into Crimea. Calling the annexation of Crimea a “real tragedy, Viktor Yanukovych and vowed to try to persuade Russia to return the coveted Black Sea peninsula. The annexation wouldn’t have happened, Yanukovych said, if he had stayed in power. Tom has more on the interview and, of course, Tom continues to follow developments in the search for Malaysia Air Flight 370