The Moscow Times – Feb 21, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin will recognize the independence of eastern Ukraine’s separatist republics, the Kremlin said in a statement Monday, adding that he had informed the French and German leaders of his decision.
“In the near future, the president plans to sign the order,” the Kremlin said, in a statement published before an anticipated national address from Putin.
It added that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had “expressed disappointment” over the decision in phone calls with Putin.
“At the same time, they indicated their readiness to continue contacts,” the Kremlin said.
France and Germany are mediators in the conflict between Kyiv and pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The West has repeatedly warned Russia not to recognise the separatists — a move that effectively buries a fragile peace process in the region.
Earlier on Monday, the rebel leaders of eastern Ukraine’s separatist Donetsk and Lugansk territories had appealed to Putin to recognize them as independent.
The Kremlin said the rebels had made the appeal “in connection with military aggression carried out by the Ukrainian authorities and the mass shelling of the territory of Donbas, which leads to suffering in the civilian population.”
Also on Monday, the Russian leader held an unscheduled Kremlin national security meeting on Monday, in which his top officials made empassioned speeches to him in favour of recognising the separatists.
Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine on ‘peacekeeping duties’
Andrew Roth in Moscow, Julian Borger – The Guardian Feb 21, 2022
Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to enter the Russian-controlled areas of southeast Ukraine following a decision to recognise the territories as independent states.
The decision to dispatch his troops to perform “peacekeeping duties” will be viewed in Ukraine and by other western allies as an occupation of the region and likely trigger tough sanctions and a Ukrainian military response.
The deployment was revealed in the text of two treaty documents that Putin signed with the leaders of the separatist republics on Tuesday.
The third article of the treaties provided for the “implementation of peacekeeping functions by the armed forces of the Russian Federation” in the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, which Ukraine and most of the world views at its sovereign territory.
On Monday night Ukrainian officials said Russian troops may have already entered separatist territory. The officials said local people in the town of Makiivka, 15kms west of rebel-held Donetsk, saw what appeared to be Russian armoured vehicles on the move.
One source – who declined to be named – said “a huge convoy of Russian armoured personnel carriers and other equipment has been travelling for one and a half hours”. It was spotted heading north towards the city of Yasynuvata, also in the Donestk region.
Video released by Ukraine appeared to show a column of military vehicles moving in convoy along a road. The officials said it was not possible to tell if the troops belonged to the regular Russian army, or were from Russian-controlled separatist units.
In a televised address early on Tuesday morning, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of wrecking peace talks and ruled out making any territorial concessions. Zelenskiy said Ukraine was committed to peace and diplomacy and Ukraine was expecting “clear and effective” steps from its allies. “We are not afraid,” he said.
The decision to send in troops was revealed hours after Putin said he would recognise the Russian-controlled territories in southeast Ukraine as independent states in a pivotal decision that would scuttle an existing peace agreement.
Putin announced the decision in a televised speech marked by the Russian leader’s visceral anger at a country he has called a “brother nation”.
“Those who took the path of violence, bloodshed and lawlessness did not recognise and don’t recognise any other solution to the Donbas problem besides the military,” Putin said. “Therefore I believe it is necessary to take a long overdue decision to immediately recognise the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic” – the Russian proxy states in east Ukraine.
State television then broadcast a short video showing Putin signing a presidential order to recognise the two Russian-backed states. The separatist leaders were also present.
A full-scale invasion of the country remains possible, using the estimated 190,000 troops that he has mustered near Ukraine’s borders.
Minutes after Putin finished speaking, the White House announced the prohibition of US investment in or trade with in the breakaway republics and potential sanctions against anyone operating within the Moscow-backed territories.
“We will also soon announce additional measures related to today’s blatant violation of Russia’s international commitments,” the White House spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said.
A senior administration official said more US sanctions would be announced on Tuesday, and would be proportionate to Russian actions overnight.
“We’ll be watching very closely the actual actions that Russia takes,” the official said.
The UK said it will announce its own sanctions on Tuesday.
> The UK said it will announce its own sanctions on Tuesday.
LOL. And what, pray tell, does the ‘uk’ trade with them? Who’d ‘buy british’?! Even people in britain don’t!
You forgot to mention the Ukraine’s determination to recapture The Crimea and Donbas by force, prohibition of the Russian language, genocide of the people in the Donbas, and massive shelling of those people over the weekend.
You also forgot to mention NATO and the Western Powers breaking their agreement in Berlin in 1997, Kiev ignoring the Minsk 1& 2 agreements, and Russia’s plea for a mutual security pact that was dismissed by NATO the US and UK.
Russia cannot tolerate hostile forces close to it’s borders, no more than Kennedy in the US could tolerate missiles in Cuba, it is that simple. NATO need to back off and all will be well, other a bloody destructive WAR is about to start!
There are a few important things to take from this move and what the EU has decided to do. Please note, this is the EU, not NATO, not Germany or France.
So my take is that given Ukraine’s increased military force being used against the breakaway republics, they (UKraine) has forced Russia to officially recognise them as separate territories, so Russia can put in peace keeping troops, and I do believe this is Putin’s genuine intent. Also, another big take is that there’s now no chance that the agreed, agreed by UKraine, that the Minsk Accord will be enacted. I think Putin believes this is dead, so he’s effectively enforced what would have come to pass had everyone sat down and hatched a deal. The US and UK weren’t party to the Minsk Accord, & they never wanted a peaceful solution. So once again, the Imperialist US/UK aganda has made everything much worse than it already was.
Aside from NATO, US, UK, Canada, and Denmark, directly stoking the UKraine fire, we now have the EU also taking actions. I’m not sure how Germany & France feel about this, but to my mind, this takes the game to another level.
Suggested sanctions are considered to be weak.
So, as other considered thinkers have said, UKraine can’t join NATO while there’s a semi internal conflict going on, and now that Russia is in Eastern UKraine, any move to join would automatically put the RF at war with NATO. Now that Russia has installed its military in Eastern UKraine, let’s see how foolish MI6 and the SAS are, let’s see if they keep shelling.
Zelensky is a puppet of America. This could have all been avoided if Ukrainians didn’t allow the 2014 illegal coup known as Maidan to succeed. The citizens in the East of Donetsk & Luhansk mostly Russian speaking said to hell with your Coup. Poroshenko announced that an ATO Operation would take place and be over within 72 hours. 62,496 hours later fighting is still going.
Alexander Zakharchenko is one of the last DPR leaders to be killed in 2018 by explosion whilst in a cafe in the eastern city of Donetsk.
Next to be killed was Mikhail Tolstykh known as Givi whom was in yhe Ukrainian Army from 1998-2000. Then was a commander of the Somalia Battalion. He was killed whilst working in his office in Donetsk.
Then there is Arsen Pavolv known as Motorola whom was killed in a blast in 2016,
Ukraine and Russia need to sit down and make peace. For peace to work America must withdraw.
I wonder if anyone bothers to ask themself if the people that live in these 3 places want to be a part of russia? I don’t mean whichever goons have set themselves up as king in each place, but the actual people.
I ‘live’ in the uk, but I’d prefer it if the place I ‘live’ in was a part of russia. I’d also prefer it if the scum english would all be replaced with russians. Or asians. Or martians. I’m not picky.
“UK said it will announce its own sanctions…”
Uugh??? Does that bankrupt parasitic little sh!tty-hole actually produce anything that anyone would pay for???
I often look flightradar24 and see now
that all the masses of airplanes from
moskwa to south + west avoid to fly
over south belarus and over krim +
luhansk-donez . but very tight to the
critical border luhansk . masses of
planes flying there from moskwa to
south . i think it would be easy to
suspect a coming terrorist falseflag-
missile against one of the many planes
east of luhansk like MH17. that would
be CASUS BELLI !
Putin ate my homework. He’d already eaten the dog.
We do get intelligent speeches from Putin, a million miles away from the American brats, hypocrites, psychos, irritating sabotaging toss-pots etc. We gradually got used to confusing the latter with beings who are appropriate in politics when they have not even earned the right to live.
I offer that the NATO/Umrica offered these two regions to Russia as a “I am sorry that we broke our promise not to extend NATO” eastward and a promise of no more escalation of kinetic war.
I also offer that all nations are aware of the lessons of occupation in modern time, it is costly, it is unpopular and over time, resulted in a humiliating departure. Hence, Russia has no appetite to occupy a large piece of land, ie all of Ukraine and only two small cooperating regions will suffice for them as the spoils of war.
Umrica has already made it clear they will not support Ukraine in a war with Russia and the Ukrainian government fully understood that this will also means NATO’s support is not coming. The Umrica public is not voicing their support for this war, nor is it in Canada and in UK. You cannot go to a war if your citizens is not fully behind you. It is clear, nobody want to fight a kinetic war and Ukraine has been played out by Umrica.
Pity the Ukrainians, global political ambition of the Umrica and UK is the cause of their predicament and hardship.
I’ve never seen so much media obfuscation of what the hell is really going on and what the hell is really important. Ukraine is Poland just before WW2, same tribe responsible for the massacres, just ethnic russians instead of germans this time.
For some actual level-headed analysis read kaminski.
t the same time senile U.S. president Joe Biden has been warning the world through corrupt Western press reports that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine, the U.S.-backed Ukraine government itself, augmented by squads of Western terrorist mercenaries, has been bombing the breakaway provinces of Donetsk and Luhantz and forcing thousands of Russian-speaking residents to flee their homes.
A steady stream of Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine’s embattled eastern provinces have hastily evacuated their homes as Ukraine artillery continues to batter with terror rockets the region’s urban areas whose occupants try to escape with at least their lives across the border into Russia where they are warmly welcomed as kindred refugees.
This is clearly the fulfillment of Russia’s greatest fear ever since American neocons triggered the 2014 Maidan revolution that brought CIA control to the Ukrainian capital in Kiev. Ever since then, the warmongering NATO countries have put pressure on Russia, whose capital Moscow lies only 300 miles northeast from the Ukrainian border.
Malicious media manipulation
Thus far, every single headline in the corrupt Western press reads the same way. The Russians are getting ready to invade Ukraine, they say. The actual situation on the ground is exactly the opposite, as the Ukraine is bombing the hell out of its own territory, driving thousands of refugees across the border into Russia for safety.
Even as Russia pulls its troops away from the troublesome border where they have every right to be, and then observe American mercenaries killing Russian residents of million-plus city of Donetsk, the warped Western press still accuses the Russians of trying to start a war which has already been started by American pressure on the bought-and-paid-for Ukrainian puppet government.
This brutal blather has gone on for weeks trying to take the world’s focus off the failed COVID plandemic which aims to impose Communism on the world, as well as divert attention from the manic fiasco in Canada where police punks continue to rough up patriotic protesters and deprive the rights of citizens protesting the grotesque COVID restrictions that have ruined both the economy of the country and the health of its citizens.
The complex charade now focused on the Western occupied pseudo nation of Ukraine ……………..
https://northerntruthseekersblog.wordpress.com/
CIA steered “historian”Schlögel in
german paper calls Putin a warmonger .
this dirty cia assholes ! warmongers
always were jew USA from 1900 on !
Whatever else may be said about Vladimir Putin, he certainly has a sense of humor, which happens to be a — if not the — chief indicator of sanity and a lack of psychopathic tendencies.
Just prior to his recent meeting with China’s Xi, Vladimir Putin sat down at a baby grand piano and performed a well executed version of “Oh, Canada,” chuckling as he finished.
This latest move re Ukraine furnishes proof that blathering about “three dimensional chess” is rubbish, since an accomplished player on the normal board can leave the typical vice-laden, grifting, political hack wondering wtf just happened!
Satanic Jews like Nuland and Stinkin Blinkin caused the problems in Ukraine. If you do not already know that, you are a fool. Satanic Jews are behind the virus scam. Have YOU taken the Jew death jab? Not so funny now, is it?
Pantomime for the dummies. Little Putin is doing as he’s told by his mentor Klaus Schwab – and his puppets in the West are doing likewise. All for the delectation of their respective citizens.
Doris above.
Britain “plays with money” the most vital commodity of all.
Britains industry has been destroyed and replaced with money markets.
So while the rest of Europe have high speed rail networks….not an inch of sole use high speed rail has been constructed.
While Britains richest man has built “The Grenadier” a new replacement 4×4 Land Rover clone…it is being built in Austria or Germany (or France?)
The famous motorcycle brand Triumph is being built in Thailand….BUT it relies heavily on nostalgia when it was made in Britain….
Money markets can vanish overnight….it is no problem shifting them to another country.
What has been done to the former “Great Britain” is totally reprehensible….and like Ancient Rome Britain is being overrun by invaders…..with the zio controlled govt sending out Navy vessels to help the invaders break the law.
Which is on par with the treachery of the zio-fiend Merkel.
Since all are on the same side, I did not know the contempt for life by man was so extreme. There are very few in the past that had reverence for life and now there is almost nothing that is true, a life of deceit and run by those who have no love for life or truth or earth. The idiocy of humanity of lying for profit is beyond recognition and the limited liability of those who hate all life is about to become a truth. The great world of a wonderful land was conquered by those that were kicked out of Spain in 1492. It was not a new world but well known. For those that are of the diabolical, your evil will be eternal, and for those of the Devil whose life is of nothing but lies, the evidence is obvious and your death shall be eternal. Those who believe in Lucifer who is actually Halal who is those who claim themselves as GOD shall rest with them. The lie is the way of life now and for those who cannot allow the research of any and all subjects of many which are obvious need not to be disturbed as you are the children of deception, an entity of deceit, father of lies, and murderers from your conception as a people of evil.
@ JAMES REINHART
SPAIN has reinvited the jews (mainly
sephardic from southamerica) . sign
that their masonry servants rule in
spain . but NEast portugal has a big
population of once to catholicism
converted sephardies . NOT TO TRUST
SPECIALY WHEN THEY WORK IN
BANKS !
British sanctions? No more seaside rock, then. Ouch!
https://usawatchdog.com/no-shooting-war-in-ukraine-dr-paul-craig-roberts
This makes the most sense on this matter,
@pig-swill fly,,, Australia’s Scott Morrison just declared sanctions on Russia …
Scott Morrison to Vladimir Putin ..”No more Vegemites plus Four & Twenty Meat Pies for you “…
Covid Carbon Ukraine is already too boring and has a lot of “C”, like crap, cock, crock, cack, crazy, calamitous claptrap. “C” is said to be about things coming to a stop. Maybe it could become a “narrative” to be touted all round the ganzen Welt.