Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that “the crisis in Ukraine is related to our security interests” during an extraordinary meeting of the country’s Security Council to address the conflict with the government of Volodímir Zelenski. For its part, the leaders of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and LuganskDenís Pushilin y Leonid Pásechnik, they asked Putin to recognize the independence of both territories and activate a “defense cooperation”.
Putin’s warning
The Russian president affirmed that one of the objectives of the meeting is to determine what to do with the requests from Donetsk and Lugansk and He explained that the recognition of both territories as republics is closely related to the problems of guaranteeing security in Europe and the world.
In addition, Putin assured that “no one disputes” that there was a coup in Ukraine in 2014 that was not recognized by some regions of the country, which gave rise to the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
The Russian president maintained that his country collaborated as much as possible to resolve the conflict peacefully while “Kiev has been mistreating the people who live there for all these years” and the government “has no intention of implementing the agreements of Minsk”.
turn up the tension
Earlier, the Russian army He reported that killed five “saboteurs” who entered its territory from Ukraine and that a shell that had been fired from Ukrainian territory destroyed a border post.
“In combat, Five people who belonged to a group of saboteurs who violated the Russian border were killed“The Russian military said in a statement that the incident occurred near the town of Mityakinskaya in the Rostov region at 0600 (0300 GMT).
According to the Russian news agency RT, two Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles went looking for the saboteurs who crossed the Russian border and were destroyed.
Hours before, a shell fired from ukrainian territory destroyed a structure of a russian border post leaving no casualties, accused the Russian security services, in a context of fighting between Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the former Soviet republic. The Ukrainian Army denied having fired.
Western countries and Ukraine denounce weeks ago that Russia deployed 150,000 soldiers near the border and predict an invasion Russian that still hasn’t happened.