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Russian President Putin Addresses Nation Following Security Council Meeting on Donbass

© Sputnik / Ramil Sitdikov / Go to the mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin gives an annual end-of-year news conference at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, in Moscow, Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an annual end-of-year news conference at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, in Moscow, Russia - Sputnik International, 1920, 21.02.2022
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Earlier in the day, Putin held a meeting with members of the Security Council to listen to their opinions regarding the situation in Ukraine's breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Watch a live broadcast from Moscow as Russian President Putin is addressing the nation about the situation in the Donbass region where tensions have flared up dramatically in the past few days because of shelling by Kiev forces.
This comes after the heads of the DPR and LPR asked Putin to recognise the republics' independence. After receiving the request, President Putin held an urgent meeting with the Security Council members who shared their views on the situation in Donbass.
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