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Friday, March 11, 2022
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Friday, March 11, 2022
Putin says he backs plans to send volunteer fighters to Ukraine
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videolink in Moscow on March 11, 2022. (Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP)
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin backs plans to allow volunteers to fight in Ukraine, where he has sent thousands of Russian troops in what he calls a “special military operation.”
“If you see that there are people who want on a voluntary basis [to help east Ukraine’s separatists], then you need to meet them halfway and help them move to combat zones,” Putin tells Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a televised security council meeting.
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