Russian leader Putin declares Ukraine’s rebel regions Donetsk and Luhansk ‘independent states’ | South China Morning Post

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on February 21, 2022, recognising Ukraine’s separatist regions as independent states. The “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk have been occupied by Moscow-backed rebels since 2014. Russian troops have now been ordered to enter Ukraine for “peacekeeping functio…

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