Russian parliament asks Putin to recognize separatist Ukrainian regions as independent
Russia's lower house of parliament passed a resolution Tuesday asking President Putin to recognize the Russian-backed Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent, Reuters reports.
Why it matters: The resolution, if adopted by the Kremlin, would be a major blow to measures known as the Minsk Accords that were adopted in 2014 and 2015 to stop fighting in eastern Ukraine and could deepen the standoff between Russia and the West over Moscow's military buildup near Ukraine.
The separatist quasi-states have been financially and militarily supported by Russia since their formation in 2014.
Putin recognizing them as independent could put them on a track to be illegally annexed by Russia, as was the case with Crimea in 2014 following Moscow's invasion of the peninsula.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-parliament-asks-putin-recognize-145334827.html
NATO warns Moscow against recognising breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine
BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Moscow on Tuesday against recognising the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in eastern Ukraine.
"If that happens, that will be a blatant violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty once again, because there is no doubt that Donetsk and Luhansk are part of Ukraine within internationally recognised borders," Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels. "So such a recognition would be a violation of international law and territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. Not only that, it will also be a violation of the Minsk agreements, so it will make it even harder to find a political solution based on the Minsk agreements", he added.
Russia's lower house of parliament had voted on Tuesday to ask President Vladimir Putin to recognise two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent, the house speaker said.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nato-warns-moscow-against-recognising-123919886.html
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they must be in Russia, right?
...more than 527,000 Russian passports had been handed out in Donbass since April 2019.
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Zelenskiy: Russian passports in Donbass are a step towards 'annexation'
