Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Western-brokered peace agreements seeking to end a conflict in eastern Ukraine no longer exist, after he recognized the independence of the ex-Soviet country’s separatist regions.
“The Minsk agreements do not exist now, we recognized the DNR and LNR,” Putin says, using the abbreviations for the separatist regions in Donetsk and Lugansk. He speaks after Russia’s upper house of parliament granted him permission to use the Russian army outside Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to present the highest state awards in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on February 2, 2022. (Sergei Karpukhin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
He says that his decision to send troops to eastern Ukraine would depend on the situation on the ground.
“I didn’t say that the troops would go there right after our meeting with you here,” he tells reporters. “Secondly, it’s impossible to predict any specific outline of possible actions at all, it depends on the specific situation that is developing on the spot, on the ground.”
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