Ukraine's foreign minister appealed for diplomacy, saying 'it's exactly now that we all should calmly focus on de-escalation efforts.'
separate decrees instructing the nation's defense ministry to assume"the function of peacekeeping" in the breakaway regions.
"True friends of Ukraine, and of global peace, should be calling for a U.S. and NATO compromise with Russia." "Vladimir Putin informed [Macron and Scholz] about the results of the expanded meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, which considered the current situation around Donbas in the context of the State Duma's decision on the recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics," the Kremlin said.
The situation is"like having a knife against our throat," argued Putin, who said that Russia has"a right to take countermeasures to enhance our own security."
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