{"id":1324085,"date":"2022-02-21T20:49:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1324085"},"modified":"2022-02-21T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:52:34","slug":"biden-admin-says-putin-has-ordered-deployment-of-troops-to-ukraines-separatist-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-says-putin-has-ordered-deployment-of-troops-to-ukraines-separatist-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Says Putin Has Ordered Deployment of Troops to Ukraine\u2019s Separatist Regions"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-says-putin-has-ordered-deployment-of-troops-to-ukraines-separatist-regions%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=1324085&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1024px-Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Shoigu_-_Saint-Petersburg_2017-07-30_1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hours after officially recognizing the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to enter the regions for supposed \u201cpeacekeeping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A senior administration official said during a press call attended by American Military News that in the previous hour, \u201cwe\u2019ve seen Russia order troops to deploy to the so-called Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DNR) or Luhansk People\u2019s Republic (LNR) regions for peacekeeping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official added that Russian troops have continually moved closer to the Ukrainian border in what appears to be \u201cplans for an invasion at any moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DNR and LNR have been occupied by pro-Russian separatists since 2014 when they were established after a separatist war in the region. Russian forces have already been present throughout, the administration official confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to recognize the DNR and LNR as sovereign gives Putin the self-justification to send troops to the Russian-backed regions. With that military presence, Putin could be laying the groundwork to capture additional territory for the newly sovereign regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin made clear his true design,\u201d the senior administration official said, calling Putin\u2019s move an \u201cattack on the very idea of a sovereign and independent Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official called Putin\u2019s speech a \u201cspeech to the Russian people to justify war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Putin\u2019s speech, he called his decision \u201clong-overdue\u201d and demanded Ukraine \u201cimmediately cease military action,\u201d warning it would be responsible for \u201ca continuation of bloodshed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin reiterated his claim that Ukraine is a nation created solely by Russia and that rejecting its history and seeking to weaken Russia has made the two nations enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Following Putin\u2019s actions, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/02\/21\/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-russian-announcement-on-eastern-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cWe have anticipated a move like this from Russia and are ready to respond immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Psaki\u2019s statement, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to prohibit investment, trading, and financing between Americans and the DNR and LNR regions.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s recognition of DNR and LNR \u201ccontradicts Russia\u2019s commitments under the Minsk agreements and further threatens the peace, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,\u201d Biden\u2019s executive order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2022\/02\/21\/executive-order-on-blocking-property-of-certain-persons-and-prohibiting-certain-transactions-with-respect-to-continued-russian-efforts-to-undermine-the-sovereignty-and-territorial-integrity-of-ukraine\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The senior administration official vowed more action against Russia would be coming Tuesday, and was separate from the \u201charsh consequences\u201d the administration has vowed to inflict on Russia if it chooses an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after Putin\u2019s decision and troop deployment, reports said that the Biden administration has ordered all remaining U.S. personnel to leave Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Biden admin has ordered all remaining State Department personnel out of Ukraine. The embassy had previously relocated from Kyiv to the western city of Lviv. Now they are shifting to Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferJJacobs\/status\/1495896613386133512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after officially recognizing the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to enter the regions for supposed \u201cpeacekeeping.\u201d A senior administration official &#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-1324085","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\/1324085","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=1324085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324085\/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=1324085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}