On February 22, the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament, approved Putin’s request to deploy the armed forces. Following that, he issued orders to Russia’s armed forces, which have been amassing at the border with Ukraine for months, to carry out “peacekeeping” in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”(“DNR”) and “Luhansk People’s Republics” (“LNR”). On February 21, President Putin signed two decrees recognizing the two areas’ independence and submitted them to parliament for ratification. (Kyiv) – Russia’s parliament adopted a resolution on Februrequesting President Vladimir Putin to recognize as independent states two areas in eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed armed groups. On February 24, President Putin declared war against Ukraine, and missile and shelling attacks began against multiple Ukrainian cities. Tetyana Tomenko in front of her house, which was damaged during shelling in Novognativka, eastern Ukraine, February 20, 2022.
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