As reports emerge of Russian peacekeeping units entering Ukraine's Donbas, a senior administration official said 'Russia has occupied these regions since 2014.'
's administration has said that Moscow has maintained a military presence in the region for eight years, reiterating that the White House has no plans to send U.S. troops to the crisis-stricken country.declared Monday he would recognize the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, two pro-Moscow breakaway states that have accused Kyiv of escalating tensions in what U.S.
"But I have nothing to amend in what the president has already said," the senior administration official added,"which is he had no intention of sending American forces to fight inside Ukraine." As such, the entrance of further Russian troops into Donbas"would not be a new step," according to the senior administration official.
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