“We have anticipated a move like this from Russia and are ready to respond immediately”: Jen Psaki says Biden will issue executive order prohibiting new investment, trade & financing with Ukraine regions Putin vowed to recognize as Russian-backed republics
— Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday recognized the independence of two Russian-backed breakaway republics in the east of. The Biden administration warned last week that the move would violate international law and Ukraine's sovereignty, and would"necessitate a swift and firm response" from America and its allies.
"The goal of our meeting today is to listen to our colleagues and map out our next moves in this matter, meaning both the requests by the leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic to Russia asking to recognize their sovereignty," Putin opened the meeting by saying. Doing so"would further undermine Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week, and"constitute a gross violation of international law."
But with Putin's statement of his intent on Monday, there was little room for doubt of the outcome. The question is what he might actually do next on the ground, where he has as many as 190,000 of his troops poised to invade Ukraine — including along the border of the very regions he said Russia will soon no longer recognize as Ukrainian territory.Russia appears to be following steps in a playbook for an invasion of Ukraine that the U.S.
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