MOSCOW/KERCH, Crimea—President Vladimir Putin has shrugged off a threat from President Donald Trump to cancel a meeting with him because of Moscow’s seizure of three Ukrainian navy ships, and accused Ukraine’s president of orchestrating the crisis.
Russia seized the Ukrainian vessels and their crews Nov. 25 near Crimea, the Ukrainian region annexed by Moscow in 2014, over what it said was the ships’ illegal entry into Russian waters, which Ukraine denies.
