Russian President Vlamidir Putin has signed the presidential decree recognising the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine – a move that will severely ratchet up tensions with the West amid fears of a Russian invasion.
Putin’s announcement comes after a meeting of the presidential Security Council and paves the way for Russia to openly send troops and weapons to the long-running conflict pitting Ukrainian forces against Moscow-backed rebels.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmon reports from Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.
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Yeah why didn’t he recognizes those region before he have troops along the border so there’s 3 Ukraine territories now increasing more maintaining his military buildup
Ukraine keeps a military contingent of 150 thousand soldiers on the border of the republics, which are armed by Western countries. And let Ukraine now contain this army, which will not fight against Russia, and these are hungry and angry men with weapons in their hands – they are dangerous to their own government because they were betrayed, so they believe.
You see declaring independence done by putin when he is not a part of ukraine.if he is allowed to do that he will do that again sometime
You promised WW3. Please do the needful and don’t disappoint us. 😭
You want WW3 to happen? 😂
US recognised Israeli sovereignty over Golan heights, now Russia on donetsk and lugansk.. Why double standards?
Give Putin those two pro-Russian states and promise to not join NATO! Crisis solved!! Or, is it?? Therein lies the problem when dealing with communists!
if you sell yourself to america like the ukraine did you lose
america cant do anything about this now the move of russia was like bi.. slap to america and americas sanctions and media propaganda are nothing worth anymore they have no chance against russia in a war america will watch how russia will move in and america will take this bi… slap like a slapped woman that cries in a corner.
russia won this game like a pro
Putin. A dictator. A mass murderer. A liar. A psychopath.
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One thing I know: There will be PEACE in these Regions.
That is for sure
You don’t think he’s done their do you he will want to attack Ukraine after all he’s as nutty as a fruit cake ?
@United Kingdom Bloke What for ? To pay Ukrainian debts?
ukraine stuffed around not implementing the minsk agreements of 2015 & it was due to us pressure many know this. so russia recognized the donbass because they got tired of the shelling & killing of the citizens in that area by hitler sympath nationalist battalions the azov battalions.
When Putin gets to gates of heaven he will explain he was only playing chess with the lives of men women and children? Russia has reasons to enslave the neighbor but those won’t be found in modern day Christianity.
This is what happen when America has a weak President…1st Nobama now Biden..
Putin knows it..He can smell weakness..But not Trump..
Mr Putin if I were ur strategic planner I’d guide u accordingly in ur plan to invade any nation u desire : –
Just take 1 action and only 1 action and I guarantee u u’ll receive 5 rewards (not 1, 3 but 5) in return guaranteed 💯 % : –
The 1 and only 1 action u need to take is : RAISE THE FLAG OF THE ZIONIST and here are ur 5 guaranteed 💯 % rewards : –
1. U’ll definitely get the green light to go ahead
2. U’ll receive all the weaponry from all over the world
3. It’ll only take u 6 days to invade
4. The new nation under ur control will definitely be recognized
5. U’ll enjoy 60+ yrs of occupation
Imagine just by raising the flag of the Zionists one receives all these PERKS…
Dictators surrounded by yes men, and who control everyone and everything, are simply not going to be good at diplomacy. All they seem to do is ‘pretend’ to be diplomatic, but it looks as false as it is.
A Medieval speech, a Medieval man.
If any Muslim country behaved like present day Russia, the American alliance would attack it for so long.
You’re agreed but you didn’t know that this is a VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
there is no more law.
The western backed fascist will be crushed
What if : –
60yrs ago the Zionists had planned to invade Ukraine and occupy it.
I believe that all this hoopla in re: Russ planning to invade would not occur
Instead, it would have been 60yrs + as of today where the Zionists flag would be flying over in Ukraine…..
i like putin.
Well Done & Congratulations Mr.Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺👍💪 from India 🇮🇳,for creating DPR & LPR. You are the only one is the Bravest & Intelligent Leader in this Planet Earth.
Good morning sir hope everything is good in India thank you sir
Meanwhile jaishankar is begging US for alliance to save them from china…
Dude you got to choose one dad. ..
@Inam Mir so if the options are US or China, its a no brainer of course china. History of US international relation with a developing nation never ends well for the other country.
So this means that there is nothing called international law, treaties etc. Only those powerful rule the world. This will cause other nations seek for nuclear weapons.
SLAVA ROSSIYA!! Death to the demagogues and imperialists in America!!
He’s always televised his council discussions. Don’t pull MSM hysteria
Bravo ! Braveheart Putin
Iron brother,
Maybe we could just send a bunch of our people into your country to start separatist actions. Then we start recognizing them and sending them backup.
Whole west vs Alone Russia
Love for Russia from india 🇮🇳
Nothing new, as always. The whole Western world is against Russia, but God is with Russia. Our cause is just and victory will be ours.
Aren’t there Alaskan Natives on the Russian side? Maybe they want to form a republic, and we back them up! Fuputin.
Now India should use same tactics to occupy POK.
God bless Mr Putin, now you tell me about how Palestine and Northern Ireland people would have felt when their territory was swallowed? First all world nations leaders come together to denounce this english Anglo-Saxon hegemony. All are equal.
This is so American, that is seems about right.
Al Jazeera News Channel looks like the western establishment news networks.
By the way, is it owned by a right wing western country? I wonder!
Al Jazeera quotes from the so- called experts from the western Think Tanks without quoting from the progressive experts from the East.
I hope, I haven’t offended the channel.
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Funny only the west can declare other country’s independent. Like HK or Taiwan
americas imperialistic interests in the ukraine was killed with that great move of russia
Osce and Red Cross observers both state violations of the ceasefire overwhelming majority were by Ukrainian troops
Putin aftaid in war also,its time to pullback your army over Ukraine border
Soon red dragon will fly to Taiwan , soon. Hello Biden are you there🤪
It’s not what you say it is aljazzera its an excellent move! Don’t be one sided try to be a true journalist
Finally someone to stand up against NATO terrorism
Congrats DPR and LPR 👏👏👏🇷🇺❤🇷🇺
Recognized the truth
Putin is Criminal now
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Putin is the best 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Okay the happiest thing about this news report is the Asian guy. Good job on your diversity Al Jazeera.
He’s as mad as Adolf Hitler
Putin ❤️ Hero
Ginn=fallen angel
The Nephilim are returning, we aint in Kansas anymore Toto.
Russia yelling CHECKMATE time ago !!!!
The minimum monthly wage in Russia is less than 200 USD …. while in Germany it is 3000 USD ….i wish Putin always remembers these figures before any new adventure .
You are a fool .. with 200 usd in russia you get the same amount of goods as 3000usd in Germany.
And stop this bogus theory.. US has more poverty, wealth gap and homeless compared to Russia by a vast margin
@A M it’s not the same but they live as comfort as you with your 3000 usd in German because most of that will go in expenses
@El Cierto yes… In russia things are not expensive.
Many people are fooled by such dollar comparison without taking the cost of living into account
@A M you are not fool but much less than that…200 in russia are enough to buy a cheap bottle of Vodka and a loaf of bread daily … but the oligharchies make much more than 200. Russia per capita income ranks at position 69 in the world .
@A M very true bro
Putin is warmongering
Wherever the US sticks their nose, there is a war. And Russia is once again forced to correct the mistakes of the Americans. Why do I say “mistakes”. They do it on purpose
You meant to say existence of Ukraine is a mistake 😂
@Farzana 🇺🇸 The United States carried out a coup and brought a puppet government to power. It is made up of nationalists. As a result of the coup d’état, the country was divided into two parts – those who accepted the coup and those who were against it. those who were against it suffered from the government all these years, as they were discriminating against and physically destroying
The immediate issue is what Putin will do about the vast areas of the two provinces that remain under control of the Ukrainian government – Putin’s “peacekeepers” are likely to invade the areas – a perfect false flag operation will be activated if Ukraine resists the annexation – The free world is seeing a repeat of 1939 – Putin is a modern day Hitler, albeit with even more duplicity than Hitler
If Putin had done this in 2014, it would have been a lot easier. Look at Erdogan, he took over Afrin and Idlib quickly. It as stupid to even declare republic. Erdogan rules Afrin and Idlib via local emirs.
are you comparing these two?
Well in the 2014 US did that
Well done our president Putin
Putin’s political knowledge is Just next Level 😇 Biden should learn politics from Putin😁
You have a twisted version of political knowledge.
Yes, Putin attacking a sovereign country is next level. What an idiotic comment.
Sock puppets don’t do politics. Or do you think any American president after 1963 called the shots?
@kaydenpat hes talking about knowledge not righteousness. Which he is correct.
You can read right??
Long live to mother Russia 🇷🇺 nato is the biggest terrorist organization ever created that needs to be dismantled
Common people who are already fighting covid ,disease ,hunger ,pollution ,inflation etc will become sandwich between intersts of super powers.which is matter of great concern.
Russia has strong allies tho….. If this goes on we will see another world war
This crisis would had been so simple to end but now it is more messy.
Hopefully USA written security guarantee to Russia and return to UN treaties is still enough.
Unfortunately, Ukraine is not likely to regain the additional two territories recognised by Russia.
The Best optiom would be Ukrainian neutrality and the two regions as special administration(Autonomy), like bosnia…
just look in the history on who has invaded who. ( Napoleon / Hitler ) … Putin is simply learning from it and hopefully won`t back off to their demands
All that nonsense basically it has done nothing.
He recognized the Donbas and lugansk / not the Ukraine
Great !!!
This is how India divided Pakistan in 1971 xD
welp Putin 😂
Britain divided greater India into India and pakistan in 1947
Putin only defending independent state is only war games provok.🤔nothing to worry smart move by Russia
You know, Russia is playing diplomacy game while doing whatever they want on the ground. Putin knows that the West is pushing for diplomacy option at the only option. So, hes tying the hands of the West with his words that’s never been honored anyways. And the West is falling for it, over and over. Putin will take Ukraine and then offer diplomacy again. Then the west will just take it and leave it, and claim victory of its own.
Putin should stop hallucinating…clearly shows his greedy mentality. What an irony when he recognized the two seperate rebel state and not respect and recognize Ukraine as Sovereign State. Should learn from WW1 & WW2. Can’t win against an Allied Force. Remember what happened to Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Gaddafi in Libya. You will be going down the same road.
The West is very weak, Putin knows that
Why do this make me think of Sudetenland?
Great comparison
The American Trained Army is always unable to fight. As we see in Afghanistan and also now we expect to see here in Ukraine 🇺🇦 also.
Trust God not America because they are not Coming to Save you😎😎😎
Respect Russia 🇷🇺 Respect Putin 👴
Only Way out of War
There is no peace without Respect ✊
Wow! Putin is a masterpiece
What is brilliant about war and theft? Robbery and lies?
@Friedrich Grumbeere very funny! Don’t you see the people of Donetsk and Luhansk are celebrating their independence?
Russia is just showing its power to the world as Americans is showing the world creating war all over the world.
@Apu Your comments are in support of a dictator who is going to kill people in Ukraine but you’re cool with that. I see a lot of Indians supporting Putin which is weird. Do you Indians support dictators who invade their neighbors?
@kaydenpat for your kind information.I am not Indian.
America EU Russia no one care about the people.They are in a show to prove their power. Putin is the best in this show of international politics.
And I am not supporting Russia or America or Ukraine. I’m just expressing my view as spectator.
I hope you understand.
@Apu No, I see the people of Donetsk and Lukhansk being ‘evacuated’ from their homes, bombs, 14000 dead, innocent people shot down by russian missiles, but you keep going with your russian financed propaganda. Putin is not a peacemaker.
Why not divide the Ukraine as East Ukraine and West Ukraine same as us & allies did to Korea and Sudan.
the best way to solve this conflict is to diplomatically partition Ukraine where Ukraine would recognise the parted lands as Russian, while in turn, Russia would give a financial and energy and package along with housing to the ukrainians that want to be part if Ukraine in western (actual ) Ukraine as a compromise . Along with that an EU and Nato admittion to western Ukraine
I support mighty Putin on this. NATO are sponsors of anarchy and chaos they should be tamed. You can’t allow someone to bring nuclear weapons on your doorstep and expect you to remain mum.✅✅✅✅✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
I wonder if the Russian population is falling for all of putins propaganda
Hence proved America Super Power😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just an excuse to annex them.
Ukraine needs to be liberated from western culture and influence. The leaders aren’t representing the people but Americans
Tell me why moat of Russias neibours want to join BATo and garw Russians , simoke answer they gave been tortired abs robbed of
@war Sil none of them want … Only politicians of the countries want . Because they love dollars and gifts from NATO!
Putin is a legit leader with balls. They don’t make them like this no more.
Lol, Putin just isolated his country on the international stage and made his country an international pariah.
It takes intelligence and tactful planning to create a superpower. Something which Putin and his bravado lacks.
@Farzana 🇺🇸 yeah says you…Lol what country do you control? Russia has been isolated for centuries.
Great Putin against globalist agenda and Illuminati anglo saxon NATO!
China is just drinking coffee ☕️
Why don’t we just get news with out the personal opinions and theatre.
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It’s time for the people of North Africa to wake up and say no to the destructive Arab colonialism, which sees in them a booty, a brothel, the right-wing king and a billboard for Arab nationalism.On what legal, historical, geographic and genetic bases do you call us the Arab Maghreb, the Arab homeland and the artificial Arab nation? Why do you not call by the same logic the Persians and the Turks as Arabs, who are closer to you geographically and ethnically? Compulsive Arabization and identity theft walks on two paths: hitting the Amazigh in its symbols, employing religion, power, the media and emotional slogans to install on them, taking advantage of the illiteracy that you have planted. You obliterate the history and achievements of the Berbers and attribute the above to the Phoenicians and the Romans and the current to the Arabs. What is Arab, they call it Arab, and what is Amazigh, do not attribute it to the Arabs. We are not a commodity on which you stick an Arab etiquette to become the property of the Arabs. Our land is not Arab colonies or extensions of the Quraish family. The arab Maghreb , the Arab Mashreq, and the Arab world in the Arabian Peninsula. Al Jazeera, the microscopic Asian state of Qatar, expresses its hidden aggression against the Berbers. It spreads Arab deceptions and makes superstitious glories in the name of the Arabs. The junk media and education that you publish in our region brings up Arabization side issues and Arab problems to hypnotize the idiots and distract Berbers from their fateful interests, liberation and democratization. You inhibit their development and hinder their contact with the advanced nations. You are exporting your backward mob culture to destroy the cultural coexistence intellectual pattern of the people of North Africa. You live in the palaces and salons of the named Arab League and plot against the impoverished, ignorant peoples. Your authoritarian regimes rule the Amazigh peoples with the logic of colonialism and Jihad invasion. You blame the French colonialists to cover up what Arab Zionism is doing in North Africa, which forbids even the Amazigh names. Here in the House of Arabs, you see the reality of Arabism. Yemen, Siria, Iraq and Lebanon ، caused the killing and displacement of millions under the rule of Arabic culture. of Arabism.the Arabic language will not make us Arabs, nor will French make us French. We are Amazigh, and we are not honored to be otherwise. We call on the free people of the world to stop calling North Africa the Arab Maghreb and the Arab world.
Putin ❤
This is actually a declaration of war. You can’t recognize a sovereign nations territory as independent without declaring war. Don’t let the words fool you.
Back in the day, was al Jazeera’s headline “Clinton recognises independence of Serbian breakaway region”? Nor did anyone seem very concerned about a declaration of war.
Come to think of it, there has been no declaration of war by Congress for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen or Ukraine. Not to mention the various countries being bombed by drones or with US/NATO black ops and/or ‘advisors’.
@John Kesich Semantics is for babies
Kosovo said Hi
@Urius Tosh
Good job.
Who’s a clever boy?
Semantics may be for babies, but I’m not engaging in semantics.
Besides, pretending the US didn’t set a precedent with Kosovo is for slimy dissemblers.
Please explain why Kosovo can exert its right to self-determination but Donbass can’t.
Nothing new to read here
Winners of the 2nd World War are permenant members of UNSC so that means they play politics among themselves to get what they want. In this case America to attack Russia. They despise that Russia and China are members of UNSC.
To remind people world wars were political not one bit about humanity.
Secondly democracy is a tool for Superpowers to control countries if they dont like it just replace them with a dictator and call it people overthrow the government.
Diplomacy works only when there is a way for compromise, Ukraine offers no compromise and that is a problem for all sides
Someone can’t get Joe Biden out of office Trump would have bomb them already
Yes yes, go go go Russia & Puting !!!
I’m support Russia !!! Teach the arrogant Western !!!
Since the east has refused to trade in petro dollars and give the west a cut the Nordstrom pipeline can not be. A war must be forced now to stop the power coming to Russia, from the extra cash will have from the sale of oil and natural gas. All of this will go directly to Moscow instead of a cut being taken by Rothchild bankers . We all know that Israeli bankers must have there cut or they start wars. This is the real enemy. Wake Up People. Only the direct stopping of the Rothchild bankers and Israel in general will stop a war.
If in the west you are against the conflict just stop driving any gas or diesel powered vehicles. The gas price rises are not inflation but deliberate increases to finance the war in Ukraine. This is forcing you to pay for it like it or not.
Stop driving and collapse fuel prices and war will stop, as the rich want the profits but do not want to finance there own dirty work.
I wish if Putin should think about to recognize Somaliland as separate and sovereign state together with Catalonia, we have been lacking for international recognition for quarter of century. can putin think globally and act locally. We are waiting your decisive decisions around the world
PUTIN IS SMART BIDEN IS NOT !!WHO IS GOING TO WIN ????
Putin is doing exactly what the world did 60 yrs ago when the Zionists invaded Palestine and annexed certain parts of other nations alongside
The world recognize the Zionists right away
So how is Putin doing it differently
No war
Life is more precious than
War
God bless both country people
Imran Khan and Putin are great Leader