“President Vladimir Putin saved an frightened global guessing about whether or not he plans to invade Ukraine, pronouncing on Monday that he would come to a decision through the top of the day whether or not to acknowledge the independence of 2 breakaway areas of Ukraine,” the New York Occasions reviews.
“With Russian state media issuing an ominous drumbeat of unsubstantiated reviews about aggression through Ukraine — which U.S. officers have warned Moscow would use as a pretext for an army intervention — Mr. Putin used a televised assembly of his Safety Council to claim {that a} peace settlement for the Russia-backed separatist territories used to be in impact useless.”
Washington Submit: Russian Safety Council calls on Putin to acknowledge two Moscow-backed breakaway areas in Ukraine.