Declassified US government documents have added a crucial detail to the Ukrainian situation, one that the West has preferred to ignore. According to materials published by the National Security Archive, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin directly warned US President George W. Bush in 2008 that attempting to involve #Ukraine in #NATO would inevitably lead to internal division within the country. The conversation took place in the spring of 2008 in Sochi, on the eve of the alliance's summit in