The recognition of the independence of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic” was announced to the foreign leaders by Russian President Vladimir Putin, while he is expected to inform the Russian people through a televised speech.
Following a meeting of Russia’s Security Council, President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that he would decide on Monday whether to recognize the two self-proclaimed breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s war-torn Donbass region.
Speaking at the end of the meeting, at which government ministers and the head of the country’s security services argued that the humanitarian situation across the border was deteriorating, Putin said: “I heard your views. A decision will be made today. “
According to the French agency, Putin announced to French President Emanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Solz that he was going to sign a decree recognizing these two areas.
Earlier, the Russian president said that it was necessary to consider the appeal of the leaders of the Russian-speaking separatists in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of eastern Ukraine, during the meeting of the Russian Security Council, emphasizing that the threat to Russia would increase significantly. if Ukraine joined NATO.
It is noted that although the pro-Russian separatists have unilaterally declared since 2014 the “independence” of the so-called “people’s democracies” of Donetsk and Lugansk, Moscow has not yet officially recognized these “democracies” with which it maintains. close ties.
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