[Berlin_Freeper]

In an hour-long speech in the Kremlin, shot through with angry rhetoric, the Russian president said western politicians "call something white today and black tomorrow"

04 March 2014 Mr Putin sent some very different signals. Most notably, he said that Russia had no intention of “annexing” Crimea.

19 March 2014 Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Crimea on Tuesday, denouncing western hypocrisy

[Berlin_Freeper]

19 March 2014 Putin: I Have No Intention Of Invading Other Regions Of Ukraine

[MarMema]

And he is correct. He did not say it in a mean way however. The speech itself was quite beautiful. Would that we had a president who was eloquent.

[MarMema]

He did not say it as they posted it. He said he would not instigate the annexing of Crimea. It was reported incorrectly in the press apparently.
Except I noted the quotation marks in the link you posted.