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Feb 21 12 tweets 2 min read
Putin calls Ukraine “ancient Russian lands
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

Read my article on the topic

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Feb 21
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.

Russian state tv broadcast

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Feb 20
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.
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Feb 19
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.
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Feb 19
Here are the videos from today’s Russian strategic military drills

Ballistic missiles fired from a battle ship
Russian military also fired Iskander missiles
Russian navy fires Calibre cruise missiles
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Feb 18
A gas pipeline is on fire in breakaway region Luhansk in Ukraine, Ria and others report
BREAKING — Another explosion is heard in breakaway region Luhansk in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.
The second explosion reportedly occurred at a gas station in the Kamennobrodsky district, in Luhansk
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Feb 18
A powerful explosion heard in the center of Donetsk, RIA Novosti claims
Ria releases an after explosion picture, says it happened near the Donetsk breakaway government HQ in Ukraine
Another picture from Donetsk/Donbass explosion. Seems like a car bomb in a parking lot
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