Putin: Communist Russia created the Ukrainian state
Putin: Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine for some reason
Putin calls Ukrainian territories as “a gift from the Bolsheviks”
Putin: Ukraine today can be rightly called "Ukraine named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", he is its author and architect
Putin: Bolsheviks literally squeezed Donbass into Ukraine
Ukraine wants decommunisation? Well, it suits us. We will show you how to do it. That’s right
Putin: the radicals who seized power in Ukraine organized terror, there was a series of unpunished murders, people in Odessa were brutally murdered, but the criminals were not punished - we know them by name and will do everything to punish them
Putin: Corruption in Ukraine blooms more than ever. Ukraine is controlled by the external powers.
Putin; Ukraine's threat to create its own nuclear weapons is not empty bravado, they have Soviet backlogs
Putin says Ukraine is already jointly exercising with NATO forces, targeting Russia. Ukraine has already integrated with NATO command and control systems, he says
Putin: I will say for the first time - in 2000, I asked Clinton how America would react to accepting Russia into NATO, the reaction looked very restrained.
Putin says Russia protected Crimea and Ukraine against the Turks
Turks would disagree. It was Russia who has taken Crimea from the Ottomans, which later led Russian supremacy in Black Sea
Well that’s it. Putin signs the decree that recognises independence of DPR and LPR. Separatist leaders are in the room
Putin also signs friendship and cooperation deal with DPR and LPR. We all know how Moscow will use this deals to officially deploy Russian forces in Donbas
Some crowd in Donbas celebrating Putin’s decision to recognise breakaway regions as sovereign states.
Macron, Putin agree on trilateral talks on Monday: French official
Elysée Palace: Macron and Putin agreed, under suitable conditions, to hold a summit to define a new architecture for peace and security in Europe
Kremlin: Macron and Putin decided to to intensify the search for solutions through diplomatic means through the foreign ministries and political advisers to the leaders of the countries participating in the Normandy format.
BREAKING — Top Ukrainian military officials came under a shelling attack on the frontlines with separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. The officials fled to a bomb shelter — AP
Footage from the shelter as shells land in Donbas
According to official data, today the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost 2 soldiers and 4 other soldiers were wounded.