{"id":1323923,"date":"2022-02-21T19:52:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1323923"},"modified":"2022-02-21T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:52:42","slug":"ukraine-was-completely-created-by-russia-putin-recognizes-sovereignty-of-pro-russian-separatists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-was-completely-created-by-russia-putin-recognizes-sovereignty-of-pro-russian-separatists\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Ukraine Was Completely Created by Russia&#039;: Putin Recognizes &#039;Sovereignty&#039; of Pro-Russian Separatists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-was-completely-created-by-russia-putin-recognizes-sovereignty-of-pro-russian-separatists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1323923&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Russian leader Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1407581\">said<\/a>\u00a0in an extensive speech on Monday that he \u201cplans to sign a decree recognizing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics (DPR and LPR),\u201d two Russian separatist regions in Eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbass territory, the Kremlin press service reported.<\/p>\n<p>Putin revealed the development during phone calls on February 21 with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron meant to diffuse recent political tension between Russia and Ukraine. Putin relayed to Scholz and Macron the results of a meeting earlier on Monday of the Russian Security Council, which \u201cfocused on the current situation around Donbass in the context of the Russian lower parliament house\u2019s resolution on the recognition of the Donbass republics,\u201d according to TASS, a Russian state-owned news agency.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Donetsk and Luhansk collectively form Ukraine\u2019s southeast Donbas region, where war between the Ukrainian state and the Russian proxies has been ongoing since 2014. Russia also invaded and colonized Ukraine\u2019s Crimea region that year and remains illegally present there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian state television showed video of the Russian-backed leaders of separatist territories in eastern Ukraine appealing directly to Mr. Putin to recognize their independence [earlier on February 21],\u201d the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/02\/21\/world\/ukraine-russia-putin-biden?auth=login-email&#038;login=email\">reported<\/a>. \u201cRussia\u2019s lower house of Parliament passed a resolution making such an appeal to Mr. Putin last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19961170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Russia-backed-Ukrainian-separatists-protests-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19961170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Russia-backed-Ukrainian-separatists-protests-ap.jpg\" alt=\"People celebrate the recognizing the independence waving Russian national flag in the center of Donetsk, the territory controlled by pro-Russian militants, eastern Ukraine, late Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. In a fast-moving political theater, Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved quickly to recognize the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine in a show of defiance against the West amid fears of Russian invasion in Ukraine. (AP Photo\/Alexei Alexandrov)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People celebrate the recognizing of the independence-waving Russian national flag in the center of Donetsk, the territory controlled by pro-Russian militants, eastern Ukraine, late Monday, Feb. 21, 2022 (AP Photo\/Alexei Alexandrov).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian president said that he plans to sign a corresponding decree in the near future,\u201d the Kremlin press service said Monday of Putin\u2019s response to the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president of France and the Federal Chancellor of Germany expressed their disappointment with this development. At the same time, they indicated their readiness to continue contacts,\u201d the Kremlin added.<\/p>\n<p>Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJl6u13LqeQ\">addressed<\/a> the Russian public in a live, televised speech on Monday evening in which he explained why he chose to formally recognize the DPR and LPR, including reasons such as the alleged nonexistence of a tradition of a sovereign Ukrainian state:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cUkraine is not just a neighbor to us. \u2026 Since ancient times, people from ancient southwestern Russian lands were calling themselves Russians and Orthodox. That was happening until the 17th century when part of these territories rejoined the Russian state,\u201d Putin asserted. \u201cModern Ukraine was completely created by Russia \u2013 to be more exact by Bolshevik communist Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Putin went on to say, \u201cUkraine has never had stable traditions of their own statehood. Starting from 1991, they followed the path of the mechanical copying of foreign models that had nothing to do with their history or with the Ukrainian realities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian leader also claimed that Ukrainians do not have a real democracy and that \u201ca network of foreign consultants and NGOs\u201d make the decisions in Kyiv, rejecting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a figure of any influence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19667010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/zelensky-profile-black-background-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19667010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/zelensky-profile-black-background-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky attends the Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels on December 15, 2021 (JOHANNA GERON\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cDo Ukrainians understand that their country has become not just a protectorate, but a colony?\u201d Putin asked.<\/p>\n<p>Putin also attributed the creation of Ukraine to Vladimir Lenin personally and criticized anti-communists for removing monuments in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now, the grateful descendants are demolishing all the statues and monuments of Lenin. They call it \u2018decommunization,&#8217;\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want decommunization? Well, we are quite happy with that. But don\u2019t stop halfway. We are ready to show you what actual decommunization would mean for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian president also supported his decision to recognize pro-Russian separatists as a country by claiming that the Ukrainian government possessed weapons of mass destruction and could pose a nuclear threat to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine really has nuclear technology and carriers to deliver such weapons back from the Soviet times,\u201d Putin claimed. \u201cGetting a nuclear weapon would be much easier for Ukraine than certain other states \u2026 especially if they have technological support for abroad. \u2026 We cannot help but react to this threat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader Vladimir Putin said\u00a0in an extensive speech on Monday that he \u201cplans to sign a decree recognizing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics (DPR and LPR),\u201d two Russian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}