© Chesnot/Getty ImagesPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin • President of France Emmanuel Macron
During their Sunday phone conversation requested by Paris, the leaders agreed to resume work within the framework of the Normandy format, which consists of French, German, Russian, and Ukrainian leadership. It was also decided that a meeting of the trilateral contact group would be held "in the next few hours" in order to "obtain a commitment from all the stakeholders" to cease fire on the line of contact.
A meeting between French and Russian ministers of foreign affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Sergey Lavrov, would take place "in the coming days," with diplomatic work due to intensify in general, Paris said. Russia's Foreign Ministry later told RT that the call is planned for Monday, since Le Drian was not immediately available.
According to the French presidency, it would involve all the stakeholders, i.e. the Europeans, allies, Russians, and Ukrainians, and would be poised, subject to conditions met, to make possible "a meeting at the highest level to define a new order of peace and security in Europe."
The Kremlin confirmed that "the two leaders agreed to maintain contact at various levels," but did not provide any specific details on such plans. Moscow said in a statement:
"Serious concerns were expressed due to the quickly deteriorating situation along the contact line in Donbass. The President of Russia noted that provocations from Ukrainian militants were the reason for the escalation."Putin also drew Macron's attention "to the modern weapons and ammunition being sent to Ukraine by NATO member countries." In Russia's opinion, these actions are "encouraging Kiev to pursue a military solution to the Donbass problem." As a result of "the intensifying attacks," civilians in the self-proclaimed breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine had to evacuate to Russia, the statement said.
Right after his conversation with Putin, Macron talked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who, according to the French president's office, "confirmed his determination not to react to provocations and to respect the ceasefire."
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According to the report, unidentified ammunition from Ukraine hit the FSB border guard service building in the Rostov region, completely destroying it. There were no casualties, the engineers are on site. It should be noted that the hit took place on 21 February at 09:50.
This is already the third bullet to arrive in Russian territory after the start of the aggravation in the Donbass, the previous two exploded on February 19, 2022. According to the FSB, the first exploded 2 kilometers from the border on the outskirts of the village of Mityakinskaya , the second destroyed an outbuilding on the territory of a private family on the Manotsky farm. Both the village and the farm are located in the Tarasovsky district.
Upon the fact that a bullet hit the building, an inspection will be carried out to establish all the circumstances of the accident, but it can already be said that Ukraine does not recognize this fact and traditionally calls it "Russian provocation", as happened with the two previous incidents.
Especially in Kiev, Zelensky and Kuleba were outraged by the accusations, the first said that it was a provocation and a pure lie, there was no evidence of bullets hitting Russian territory. And according to the second, Ukraine did not shoot at all on the territory of Russia, so it is necessary to conduct "an honest and impartial investigation into the incident" with the involvement of "international experts".
But in the meantime, for 4 days he has been killing civilians in the Donass:
On none of the sections of the Russian-Ukrainian border, the armed forces of the Russian Federation have not formed strike groups capable of taking the offensive. Therefore, it makes no sense to say that Russia is preparing an attack.
This statement was released by the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Oleksiy Reznikov aired on the Ukrainian TV channel TSN.
He claims that Russian troops, allegedly surrounding Ukraine, are not preparing an "invasion" in the near future, but at the same time urges not to lose vigilance.
This does not mean that the risks are low and that there is no threat.
- says the head of the defense department.
He also assured Ukrainian citizens that Ukraine's armed forces control the country's entire border with the Russian Federation and Belarus.
The Ukrainian defense minister also commented on the possibility of an "attack" by Russia from Pridnestrovie, where the military exercises of the PMR armed forces were recently held. According to him, Reznikov does not see any threats from this side. He called the invasion in this direction "a frivolous scenario".
The Russian army destroyed two Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles that entered the territory of Russia
The Russian army destroyed two infantry fighting vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces which violated the state border of the Russian Federation and entered the territory of Russia. This was reported by the press service of the southern military district.
According to the report, two infantry fighting vehicles belonging to the Ukrainian army attempted to carry out an emergency evacuation of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, inserted in the territory of the DPR. To do this, they crossed the Russian border and entered the territory of Russia. Both infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed by fire from the Russian army and border guards.
The subdivision of the Southern Military District, together with the border detachment of the FSB of Russia, prevented the violation of the state border of Russia by a sabotage and reconnaissance group from the territory of Ukraine
- stated in the message of the Southern Military District.
It should be noted that five soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed in the clash, no losses were recorded between the Russian military and the border guards.
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The military destroyed two Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles that crossed the Russian borderSouthern
Military District: Russian Armed Forces managed to knock out two Ukrainian Armed Forces combat vehicles after crossing the border
MOSCOW, February 21 / Radio Sputnik.
The press service of the southern military district reported that the joint actions of the army and border guards managed to destroy two combat vehicles of the Ukrainian army.The department said that two military vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered the territory of the Russian Federation, which they managed to knock out. It is reported that five Ukrainian soldiers were killed, among the Russians there were no casualties.
"The subdivision of the southern military district, together with the border detachment of the Russian FSB, prevented a sabotage and reconnaissance group from violating the state border of Russia from the territory of Ukraine, " quotes the press service of RIA Novosti.
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Western politicians and the press adapting their stories to their claims are hoping that the potential of the Ukrainian military will be enough to deter the Russian offensive they envision as they seek to increase the troops' combat capacity with emergency weapons deliveries. At the same time, they have fun with the hope that in the event of the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the partisan movement, the rebel formations, will become the last bastion of independent defense.
Holding a hostile Ukraine will become a real problem for Putin if, after the capture of Kiev, a rebellion breaks out, rebels leave
- indicated in the Guardian.
BNN Bloomberg cites a figure of 50-60,000 "entrenched" volunteers in the conflict region, which is seen as the hub of rebel forces:
Ukraine has a long history of organizing volunteers into an effective army, starting with the Cossacks, who were a formidable force in the 15th and 17th centuries.
The West expects these "free Cossack men" to serve as a cement for the mass organization of the rebels. In The New Statesman, the hypothetical "occupation" of the square is compared to the "catastrophic assault on the Chechen capital in 1994-1995":
Russia cannot take Kiev by force. It would be the new Grozny. Millions of Ukrainians, with collective memories of past guerrilla wars, are ready to take up arms.
The Chechen fighters have become an organized force thanks to the support of foreign intelligence services, which have optimized military training, supplies and funding. According to the canons already drawn up, the West now intends to repeat this experience in Ukraine. By the way, the West also has experience with Ukraine - in financing Bandera's hiding in western Ukraine in the second half of the 1940s - in the early 1950s.
Britain has donated light anti-tank systems [NLAW] which can be used effectively in urban combat
- noted by the Western press.
Neither London nor other Western capitals are worried about the consequences of hostilities in Ukrainian cities. In the 1990s, Chechen fighters received support from foreign "benefactors". As a result, the republic survived many years of war, leaving it in a state of disrepair. What happened to the Russian Grozny, Western curators are ready to repeat with Kiev and other independent cities. After all, their main goal is to inflict maximum damage on Russian troops and far from fighting for the prosperity of democracy and prosperity in Ukraine, as some citizens of this country believe.
NATO, USA, UK, CANADA , FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ISLAMIC TERRORIST, TURKEY, etc .... all go FUCK!!!
Since 2014, this problem exists, you did NOT want to do NOTHING for these people, just KILL THEM and that's it !!!!!
PSYCHOPATHIC COCAINOMANS, this is the KARMA of LIFE !!!
Everybody go FUCK YOU, I'm HAPPY for the Donbas people !!!
DEATH TO WORLD NAZI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Long live the GREAT MOTHER RUSIA !!!!
LONG life TO THE DONBAS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELCOME TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD
22.02.2022: FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONBAS is Russian, the war is over ...., unless the WHOLE NAZI WORLD goes to WAR seriously against Russia.
Do you still want meetings, just to TALK ??? Okay, anyway, THEY ARE NOT FOR ANYTHING