Alexey Danilov (Photo: Frame from the video channel in time Ukraine / YouTube)
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He noted that the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council is still ongoing. According to Danilov, President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak in more detail about the decisions of the Ukrainian authorities.
The head of the National Security and Defense Council only noted that Ukraine can expand programs for the resettlement of refugees from the occupied territories.
On the evening of February 21, the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, signed decrees recognizing the pseudo-republics and an agreement on “friendship and mutual assistance” with the “L / DPR”. In his address to the Russians, which lasted almost an hour, he denied Ukrainian statehood and repeated the clichés of Russian propaganda.
February, 15 The State Duma of the Russian Federation supported the appeal to Vladimir Putin for recognition «L/DPR“. The head of the aggressor state, commenting on the decision, said that Russia «must do everything to solve the problems of Donbass.”
Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, said that such an appeal is an escalatory action and will complicate the situation in Europe.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine emphasized that recognition by Russia «L/DPR” will mean a conscious withdrawal from the Minsk agreementswhich will deal a serious blow to the political and diplomatic settlement. The EU and NATO also condemned the decision of the State Duma. Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said that recognition by Putin «L / DNR “may be the reason for a new invasion of Russia.
On February 21, the leaders of the militants Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik appealed to the head of the Kremlin with a request to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed «L/DNR”.
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