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#LIVE 🔴: Russian President Vladimir #Putin holds a press conference after a Security Council session 🇷🇺

"The government in Kyiv has carried out impunity, military operations in Donetsk and Luhansk and it seems as though there is a third peak in military tensions now" ⤵️

🔴: "Across the world, and especially on the European continent, Ukraine is being instrumentalised agaist #Russia" said #VladimirPutin at a press conference about the #UkraineCrisis 🇷🇺🇺🇦

🔴 : "We have no guarantees. We need a document to be signed that is valid under international law," said Russian President Vladimir #Putin speaking about the promise that #Ukraine will not become a NATO member ⤵️

🔴: "The reaction of the #EU shows them unwilling to accept proposals so key in our eyes" says Russian Foreign Minister #Lavrov.

He announced, in spite of this, that he intends to meet with #US 🇺🇸 Sec. of State #Blinken on the 28th in Geneva ⤵️

🔴: Deputy chief of staff of the Kremlin, Dmitry Kozak, said that talks on the #MinskAgreement have been “at a standstill since 2015”

Kozak said this is because #Ukraine is not any sharing details about the status of #Donetsk ⤵️

🔴: President #Putin asked Dmitry Kozak: "the government in Kyiv, does it intend to implement the #MinskAgreement?"

"If the situation continues as it has, the answer is no, absolutely not," responded #Kozak ⤵️

🇺🇦🇷🇺 It's unclear how the West would respond if #Russia recognised two rebel-held regions in eastern #Ukraine, said @JakeCordell from the
@MoscowTimes to @France24 ⤵️

@JakeCordell @MoscowTimes @FRANCE24 🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister #SergeiLavrov said that he will meet #US 🇺🇲 Secretary of State Antony Blinken this Thursday in Geneva.

@ArmenGeorgian said that this means that "the diplomatic track has not come to an end" ⤵️

@JakeCordell @MoscowTimes @FRANCE24 @ArmenGeorgian #VladimirPutin told his security council it was necessary to consider an appeal from the leaders of two breakaway regions in eastern #Ukraine 🇺🇦 for #Russia
🇷🇺 to recognise them as independent, as @nadiamassih explains ⤵️

@JakeCordell @MoscowTimes @FRANCE24 @ArmenGeorgian @nadiamassih 🇷🇺 Putin also said he no longer feels that the 2015 #MinskAgreements with France, Germany and #Kyiv will be able to resolve #Ukraine's 🇺🇦 separatist conflict.

🔴 For more analysis and #live updates head to ⤵️
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