President Vladimir Putin ordered his defence ministry to despatch Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine’s two breakaway regions, according to a decree published early on Tuesday after he said Moscow would recognise their independence.
Highlights
- Putin orders Russian defence ministry to despatch Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine’s breakaway regions.
- Putin earlier signed decrees to recognise the two breakaway areas as independent statelets defying Western warnings that such a step would be illegal and kill off long-running peace talks.
- The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s.
- Republic are self proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk, Russia, self-declared eastern Ukraine statelets.
- read more: Putin signed decree recognising two Russian-backed regions in eastern Ukraine as independent entities, in a ceremony in Moscow, in this picture released February 21, 2022.
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