Russia does not rule out expanding the current territories of the separatists

• Crisis Putin recognizes the separatist territories and deploys his troops there

As Russian troops re-enter Ukrainian territory, Moscow defends President

's decision, accusing Kiev of having bad intentions.

Russia maintains that recognizing the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics was necessary because "it became clear that Donbas was on the verge of another military advance by Kiev."

This was explained by the permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, Vasili Nebenzia.

Today Moscow has left the door open to expanding the borders of the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and stealing more territory from Ukraine.

Russia on Monday became the

, which forcibly seceded from Ukraine in May 2014 amid fierce fighting.

Putin's move has drawn global condemnation, though his ally Syria has joined in the recognition.

Images on social networks showed a

last night at the entrance to the city of Donetsk.

Russia now says it is too early to discuss the borders of breakaway Ukrainian regions.

The Russian Foreign Ministry explained this morning that it must first

with the two republics before it can discuss issues such as exact borders.

Last night the Kremlin was more cautious and issued a message where it seemed to bet on the current borders, not the expanded ones of 2014, before the separatists lost ground.

Friendship agreement with Russia

In the early morning, the Donetsk Parliament ratified the so-called friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance agreement between Russia and the republic.

The document had been signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of the republic, Denis Pushilin, on Monday in Moscow.

by the 87 deputies of the chamber.

Both countries remain united by ties that are difficult to break and, above all, by Donetsk's dependence on Moscow.

Your gas, your pensions, your economic stability and your security depend on your obedience to the Kremlin.

Although this 'de facto annexation' could destroy the peace process of the Minsk Agreements forever, Russia insisted this morning that the recognition of Donetsk and Lugansk does not change the bases of the agreements.

Kiev, despite formalizing the theft of territory, has to continue to comply.

Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov denounced that Kiev does not care what the Europeans say and is not going to implement the Minsk agreements.

"For all these seven years, we have been drawing the attention of our European colleagues, literally every day, to the fact that Kiev again does nothing, even publicly declares that it will not comply with these agreements," Lavrov said on the TV channel. television 'Russia 24'.

The coercion is ready.

Putin has ordered the Defense Ministry to

by the Russian Armed Forces in both people's republics.

Waiting for the reaction of Kiev

What happens depends largely on Kiev's reaction.

Ukraine's Defense Minister stated that many people will be driven to chaotic decisions by emotions, "we will not allow this."

He also denounced that the Kremlin has taken another step towards the revival of the Soviet Union.

"By directly intervening in the conflict on the side of the self-proclaimed republics, Russia could intimidate Kiev into refraining from further armed clashes in Donbas. But this is the only advantage of granting formal recognition to the self-proclaimed republics," he explained yesterday in the 'Kommersant' newspaper Andrei Kortunov, director of the Russian Council for International Affairs.

He also warned that "the inevitable negative consequences of such a move would be numerous and varied."

On the Ukrainian front the tension continues.

The Ukrainian army said

in shelling by pro-Russian separatists in the east in the past 24 hours, the highest number of casualties this year.

According to the OSCE, violations of the ceasefire by both sides continue to increase.

Sergei Lavrov dismissed the threat of sanctions,

saying the West would impose them regardless of events.

He described the response to Russia's recognition of the regions as predictable.

"Our European, American and British colleagues will not stop and calm down until they have exhausted all their possibilities for so-called 'Russian punishment', threatening us with all kinds of sanctions."

"Well, we are used to it. We know that sanctions will be imposed anyway, in any case. Rightly or wrongly," Lavrov added.

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